UK politics: Farage warned attack against ‘establishment’ over unregistered gifts could lead to harsher punishment – as it happened

According to The Guardian World, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is under scrutiny after the parliamentary standards commissioner opened an investigation into a five million pound donation that went unregistered. Farage has dismissed the inquiry as a hit job, casting himself as a victim of the establishment. But he was warned that attacking the standards process in those terms could actually backfire and lead to a harsher punishment. The story broke earlier today as part of the paper's rolling politics coverage.

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