Reform faces attacks over links with Russia

REFORM UK has denied it is a pro-Russian party, as it faced renewed calls from the Prime Minister and MPs to launch an investigation into how its former leader in Wales had taken bribes from the Kremlin.

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REFORM UK has denied it is a pro-Russian party, as it faced renewed calls from the Prime Minister and MPs to launch an investigation into how its former leader in Wales had taken bribes from the Kremlin.

Sir Keir Starmer, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch and other MPs rounded on Nigel Farage’s party in the House of Commons yesterday to demand it holds an inquiry into how Nathan Gill had taken cash from Moscow.

Gill was jailed for 10-and-a-half years last week, after he admitted being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.

While speaking in Parliament about the G20 summit in South Africa, Sir Keir said: “It is shocking that a senior official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years - a very significant sentence - for pro-Russia bribes.