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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Jessica Elgot

UNCOVERED: Private jet used for nigel farage chagos stunt linked to reform mega donor - Caught on Camera

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage. The jet disclosure underlines the importance of Harborne, one of the biggest donors in British political history, to the Reform leader. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Nigel Farage’s attempt to reach the Chagos Islands military base was made on a private jet that appears to be linked to Reform UK’s mega-donor Christopher Harborne, it has emerged.

Harborne, who has donated £12m to Reform UK, has links to the plane that flew Farage to the Maldives, and another that flew a group of Chagossian campaigners to Sri Lanka before they set out for the archipelago by boat.

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