Watchdog Urged to Investigate Free Support Trump Official Gave Farage

The MPs' standards watchdog has been asked to investigate whether Nigel Farage should have declared regular free support given to him by a US PR adviser who is now a key official in Donald Trump's administration.

- Rowena Mason

US filings show that CapitalHQ, run by Alexandra Preate, helped Farage on more than 100 days last year with organising speaking engagements, media appearances, political activities and travel in the US.

Preate and Capital HQ's advice to Farage ended in February when she became an adviser to the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. She is also a former press spokesperson for Trump's ex-strategist Steve Bannon.

The Good Law Project, a campaign group, wrote to the Commons standards commissioner this week asking why the support was not registered with parliament as a benefit on Farage's register of interests.

Jolyon Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project, said: "Documents released by the Foreign Agents Registration Act [Fara] unit of the US Department of Justice have revealed that Nigel Farage was in receipt of a range of hospitality and logistics support from US PR firm CapitalHQ, in the period between February 2023 and February 2025. Since becoming an MP in the last general election, Mr Farage has not declared any of this on his register of interests."