Reform UK suspended Dan Jukes and James Orr on 4 September pending an internal investigation into allegations concerning foreign funding, as the party’s conference began in Birmingham. Nigel Farage denied that the party had accepted illegal money or broken funding rules.
Jukes, a close aide to Farage, and Orr, Reform’s head of policy, both stepped aside while the party investigates. The personnel action followed undercover reporting conducted by Verbatim and broadcast by Channel 4 News the previous evening.
The suspensions and announcement of an internal inquiry are the new developments. The allegations raised by the broadcast remain unproven: the decision to suspend the two men is not a finding that funding rules were breached.
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Farage’s denial addresses the central claim about the party’s finances. He denied that Reform had taken illegal money, while the party announced its own investigation into the allegations.
The timing brought the inquiry into the opening of Reform’s Birmingham conference. For now, the confirmed position is that two senior figures have stepped aside pending that process; the underlying funding allegations should not be treated as established facts.
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Nigel Farage’s party suspends top officials after undercover sting makes foreign funding claims
