Nigel Farage declares £270,000 payment from Direct Bullion for promotional work

Nigel Farage makes hundreds of thousands of pounds promoting Direct Bullion (Picture: Direct Bullion) Nigel Farage made more than a quarter of a million pounds for just four hours’ work a month promoting gold bullion, according to a new financial declaration. The Reform leader works as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion, and the gig has proven to be one of his most lucrative sources of income. His latest declaration – £270,000 for working 12 hours over three months – is his largest single payday yet for work outside his role as an MP. The register of financial interests also shows he earned £18,402 for an estimated six hours of presenting his show on GB News – working out to more than £3,000 an hour. There is one notable absence from his entry in the register, though, with no new declarations of earnings from the video recording site Cameo. Farage has made almost £90,000 on the platform, which lets members of the public request clips from celebrities, in the past year. Everything is changing, all the time Cut through political noise and understand how the Westminster chaos actually affects your life with Metro's politics newsletter Alright, Gov? Sign up here. But he stopped using it earlier this year, following controversy over a number of videos he had made – including one that was used by a far-right group to promote one of their events. Farages only new declarations in the latest register are from GB News and Direct Bullion. Labour Party chair Anna Turley said the gold promotion earnings show Farage ‘pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in truth he’s just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder’. A spokesman for Farage said: ‘As has previously been reported and declared, Nigel Farage is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.’ Farage’s links to crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has drawn attention (Picture: George Cracknell Wright/LNP) Farage continues to face pressure over a £5,000,000 ‘gift’ from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in January 2024, before he returned as Reform leader and was voted in as an MP that summer. The parliamentary standards watchdog is investigating whether the Clacton MP should have declared the money – a requirement if it was related to his political activity. Farage has changed his explanation for why he was given the £5 million, initially claiming it was for security before saying it was a ‘reward’ for his years of campaigning for Brexit. In several tense TV interviews earlier this month, he refused to say whether he had spent any of the money on security, housing, or anything else. He told BBC Breakfast: ‘Let’s be clear, it’s an unconditional gift. I can spend it on cars if I want to. It’s entirely up to me, right.’ Harborne also funded Farage’s £29,000 flight to the Maldives earlier this year for a visit to the Chagos Islands. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk. For more stories like this, check our news page. Comment now Comments Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source

The Reform UK leader is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion

Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025UK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage received £270,000 from a gold marketer for which he is a brand ambassador, his single biggest payment as an MP.The Reform leader has been criticised in the past over his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea for Direct Bullion that people should buy physical gold and put it in their pension pots. Continue reading...

Nigel Farage registered his largest single payment yet for work outside his role as MP for Clacton, which comes with a basic salary of just over £98,000-per-year

Nigel Farage has the biggest outside earnings of any MP.Nigel Farage was paid £270,000 to promote a gold dealer, it has been revealed.The latest register of MPs’ financial interests show the Reform UK leader received the huge sum from London-based Direct Bullion on May 29.It shows that he did 12 hours of work over three months for the company, which means his payment works out at £22,500 per hour.The payment is double the £135,000 he received from the same company in October last year.He was also paid £91,200 from them in January 2025.The revelation came just a day before the Commons debates whether MPs should be banned from having second jobs.There is no suggestion that Farage has done anything wrong.A spokesman for the Reform boss said: “As has previously been reported and declared, Nigel Farage is a Brand Ambassador for Direct Bullion.”The latest register of interests also show the Clacton MP received £18,402 on June 16 from GB News for six hours work.The Reform leader is currently being investigated by parliament’s sleaze watchdog for not declaring £5 million he received shortly before becoming an MP from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire.Farage has insisted he has done nothing wrong, and that it was an unconditional gift to recognise his work campaigning for Brexit.He has previously said the money will be used to pay for his personal security, although last week he told presenters it was “not any of your business” what he does with the cash during spiky interviews on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 4′s Today programme.Listen to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. Every week, Kevin Schofield and Kate Nicholson unpack the week’s biggest stories to keep you informed. Join us for straightforward analysis of what’s going on at Westminster.Related...Piers Morgan Says Nigel Farage Is 'Dead In The Water' And Will Have To Quit As Reform LeaderAndy Burnham Smashes Nigel Farage In Best Prime Minister Poll'None Of Your Business!' Farage Fumes When Questioned Over His £5m Donation

The Reform UK leader revealed the payment from Direct Bullion in his latest register of financial interests.