Reform chief Nigel Farage trousers £270,000 for 12 hours work selling gold bullion
Nigel Farage registered his largest single payment yet for work outside his role as MP for Clacton, which comes with a basic salary of just over £98,000-per-year
Reform chief Nigel Farage declared the six-figure payment as a ‘brand ambassador’ for Direct Bullion(Image: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)
Reform chief Nigel Farage trousered an extra £270,000 – almost three times his MPs’ salary – for promoting gold bullion.
The six-figure payment as a “brand ambassador” for Direct Bullion is contained in Mr Farage’s latest update to the MPs’ register of financial interests this week. It is the largest single payment yet for work outside his role as the MP for Clacton, which comes with a basic salary of just over £98,000-per-year.
The Reform UK leader declared the payment from Direct Bullion for an estimated four hours of work per month over the course of a three-month period.
He has previously declared separate payments from the company of £91,200 – registered in February 2025 – and £135,000, which was registered in November last year. According to the Reform leader’s latest register entry, he also earned £18,402 for an estimated six hours of presenting on GB News.
A spokesman for Mr Farage said: “As has previously been reported and declared, Nigel Farage is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.”
The Mirror reported earlier this month that the Reform leader, who has tried to present himself as being on the side of working people, has no fewer than four houses, with his partner owning another in the Reform chief’s constituency.
They include a grade-II listed property nestled in the Surrey countryside purchased by Mr Farage in May 2024 and a seaside pad Mr Farage purchased via his company Thorn in the Side Ltd for £499,995 in 2020.
It comes as Mr Farage also continues to face questions about a £5 million gift he received from Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne. The Reform leader has reasoned that he did not need to declare the gift, which he was given before he announced he would stand for Parliament in 2024, because it was not related to politics.
The Clacton MP has given various explanations for the gift, including that it was to pay for his personal security, and that it was a “reward” for campaigning for Brexit throughout his political career.
Parliament’s standards commissioner is investigating whether Mr Farage should have registered the gift.
In a recent round of interviews, Mr Farage insisted the gift was a “wholly private matter”, and refused to say if he had spent any of it on security, or on anything else.
Appearing rattled last week, he claimed it’s not the public’s business how he spends a £5million gift– and he was free to splash it on Ferraris or betting on horseracing.
In an interview with LBC, he said: “With all due respect, what’s it got to do with you?” Asked about his different explanations, he said: “It’s an unconditional gift. I can spend it on Ferraris if I want. That’d be entirely up to me.”
Pressed on why he said it was for security, he said: “The understanding is, and you know very well, you know very well I’ve been physically more attacked over many years than any other politician.” But when the interviewer asked how much has been spent, he said: “I can do what I want with it. I can put it on the horses.”
