MPs urge Farage to 'come clean' about constituency house

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have urged Nigel Farage to say if he saved tax on a house in his constituency, after a BBC investigation questioned if his partner did, as he has said, buy it with her own money.

- Peter Walker

The Guardian first reported in May that the house in Clacton, which Farage initially said he had bought himself, is in fact wholly owned by Laure Ferrari, his long-term partner.

While Farage said the arrangement was due to security reasons, Ferrari buying it would have saved the Reform UK leader an estimated £44,000 in the higher rate of stamp duty for which he would have been liable, as he owns other properties.

At last week's Reform conference, Farage told the Mirror the house was Ferrari's sole UK asset, dismissing as "disgusting" the idea that this was an arrangement put in place to save tax.