It's time for some home truths, Nigel...

He changed his story on house purchase tale TWICE, Labour chairwoman says he has misled constituents

- NICK SOMMERLAD

SLIPPERY Nigel Farage faces fresh questions over his tax affairs as we can reveal he changed his story not once but twice over the purchase of his luxury constituency home.

Our sister paper the Mirror told last weekend that it was Farage's partner Laure Ferrari who bought a property in his Clacton constituency, not the Reform leader himself, though he said in November: "I have bought a house in Clacton."

It is Ferrari's only asset so she paid standard stamp duty rates on the £885,000 home.

Farage, the owner of a £3million property empire, would have paid an additional five per cent had he bought it as he claimed around £44,000.

He later said he had misspoken when he said he bought the house.

He assured us last Friday that Ferrari purchased the property with her own money, saying: "I haven't lent money to anybody. I didn't give her money. She comes from a very successful French family and she can afford it herself. It's convenient, it works and she loves it there." A BBC investigation found no evidence that Ferrari and her family have the wealth to purchase the house mortgage-free.