Reform UK's Secret Deals and Splinter Wars Expose the Right's Fractured Foundations

Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform UK leader as early as March 2024 — months before the general election and well before he publicly claimed he had "no intention" of returning to frontline politics. The Sunday Times revealed that Farage negotiated a pact with then-leader Richard Tice, supervised by convicted fraudster George Cottrell. Labour chair called it evidence of a party operating under a "stench of sleaze" with "grubby pacts."

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