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Cash-rich Reform UK launches fightback with new media platform
The party plans 25 journalists and editors as it spends part of a £72 million donor haul on media operations and a newspaper launch.
- On Thursday, October 22, 2026, Nigel Farage's Reform UK began hiring staff for a YouTube-based TV channel, utilizing £72 million donated by crypto businessmen Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo to bypass establishment media.
- Reform has raised £87 million from private donors this year, eclipsing Germany's Christian Democratic Union record of £86.3 million, a funding model Fernando Casal Bertoa of the University of Nottingham noted resembles U.S. political campaigns.
- With an estimated initial budget exceeding £10 million and plans for 25 journalists and editors, the channel aims to broadcast content similar to U.S. President Donald Trump's Trump TV, a streaming service airing White House-sanctioned content.
- The Labour Party has threatened legislation to change donation rules, which Reform officials described as a 'retroactive trapdoor,' while the party faces ongoing police and parliamentary investigations into previous funding.
- Donors Harborne and Delo frontloaded £36 million contributions each to help Reform prepare for the next election by leveling the playing field against the long-established Labour and Conservative parties.
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Cash-rich Reform UK launches fightback with new media platform
Flush with money from billionaire donors, Nigel Farage's Reform UK has started hiring staff for a YouTube-based TV channel to bypass established broadcasters and capitalise on fundraising unrivalled by any major political party in Europe.
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The Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, uses the massive funds obtained from the cryptocurrency sponsors to build its own TV channel on the YouTube platform. The measure comes after a period marked by controversy and decreases in the preferences of the electorate, the political formation thus pursuing the transmission of messages to the public without the intermediation of the classic television stations. [...] Article UK: Reform UK launches i…
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