Do voters care about Farage's £5bn donation? #Peston

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]But I do want to ask you therefore about the 5 million donation, the gift to Nigel Farage. If you know, if a billionaire came up to you and offered you 5 million, would you pocket it? No, no one's done that. The point is he wasn't >> The The Come on. Calm down.

[00:00:18]The point is he was not in politics at the time. He had not decided to come back into politics at the time. It was a gift. It's within the laws.

[00:00:26]Uh that was all checked out. Look, the standards commissioner is looking at it.

[00:00:29]They'll form their own ruling whenever.

[00:00:32]Um but Nigel and the team are completely confident that he's complied with the rules.

[00:00:36]Well, we'll see. I'll tell you what doesn't happen in My mate field.

[00:00:41]Uh you know, what people what people don't talk about in My mate field is they don't talk about how the billionaire mate just gave them uh 5 million quid. That isn't a thing that would have happened to anyone in My mate field.

[00:00:50]>> know what they actually talk about? They talk How How are we going to get decent jobs? How are we going to get I wouldn't have needed to if I had a mate WHO'D GIVEN THEM 5 MILLION.

[00:00:57]Wouldn't And they they talk they talk about How are we going to get rid of the HMOs full of full of asylum seekers? How are we going to actually focus on British citizens, making our lives better, make us more prosperous? Before we move off this issue of gifts and all the rest of it, your press office said that Nigel Farage's 1.4 million house was paid for by the I'm a Celebrity fee.

[00:01:20]And you know, it was 1 and 1/2 million after tax. That is 575,000 lb short of the 1.4 million cost. So it's obviously not true that it paid for the house.

[00:01:32]But as far as I'm concerned, the 5 million pounds has been provided for Nigel's safety and security for his lifetime. That is beginning and end of story. How Nigel pays for his individual homes, frankly, is none of Robert, it's none of our business.