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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

RARE PHOTOS: Urgent review ordered into foreign interference in uk politics - The Real Truth

The government has launched an independent review of foreign financial interference in UK politics, after the jailing of a former Reform MEP for taking Russian bribes.

Nathan Gill, a former Reform UK party leader in Wales, was jailed for 10 and a half years last month after he admitted being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European parliament – conduct that housing secretary Steve Reed described as a “stain on our democracy”.

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