{"id":93002,"date":"2026-09-05T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-have-two-reform-uk-officials-stood-down-after-an-undercover-investigation-bbc-newscast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:43:40","slug":"why-have-two-reform-uk-officials-stood-down-after-an-undercover-investigation-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-have-two-reform-uk-officials-stood-down-after-an-undercover-investigation-bbc-newscast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why have two Reform UK officials stood down after an undercover investigation? | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two senior officials stood down from Reform UK after a Channel 4 News report prompted the party to investigate claims <!--more--> about funding.  <\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage&#8217;s senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform&#8217;s head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of the internal probe. The undercover filming was done by Verbatim Investigations and broadcast by Channel 4 News. Reform UK has denied wrongdoing and Nigel Farage describes the operation as entrapment.  <\/p>\n<p>The footage appears to show an attempt to secure funding from someone they believed to be a foreign donor. Electoral law prohibits UK political parties from receiving financial contributions from people who can&#8217;t vote here.  Reform denies any wrongdoing and says it has &#8220;been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign-funded climate change activists&#8221;. Adam and Chris discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two senior officials stood down from Reform UK after a Channel 4 News report prompted the party to investigate claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}