Laura Kuenssberg and Nigel Farage Laura Kuenssberg cornered Nigel Farage on Sunday over his claim the “establishment” is prejudiced against Reform UK. The BBC presenter was interviewing the Reform leader following heightened scrutiny over the party’s finances. A Channel 4 documentary showed undercover reporters from Verbatim posing as foreign donors offering money to the party. The journalists claim Reform’s head of policy James Orr and Farage’s close aide Dan Jukes took funding from a US company to commission three supposedly independent polls at £32,500 earlier this year. British electoral law says political donations can only be made by someone eligible to vote in the UK or a UK-registered company. The report also says Jukes suggested a way to get around those electoral rules to secure a £500,000 donation from the US to the party. Orr and Jukes have now stepped down, while Reform insists they have not broken any laws or taken any foreign cash. The Metropolitan Police and the Electoral Commission say they are assessing reports, though they have not opened an investigation at this time. Meanwhile, there is still an ongoing parliamentary probe into the £5 million donation Farage received months before he became an MP but which he failed to declare once he was sworn into the Commons. The Clacton MP has previously claimed there is an “establishment stitch-up” against him. On Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the presenter brought up these ongoing incidents, and said to Farage: “Your suggestion is that you are being unfairly targeted. This is deliberate tactics to go after Reform. Where’s your evidence for that?” “Hang on, how did Richard Tice’s bank accounts appear in a newspaper?” He said. “I know what being targeted is. I was debanked a couple of years ago.” Farage described his party as “new kids on the block” who are being stopped by the “establishment ecosystem” who don’t want things to change. Kuenssberg replied: “Except that, Nigel Farage, so many other party leaders also get investigated. “You’re suggesting that you’re somehow treated unfairly. Keir Starmer was investigated over buying a field for his mother’s donkeys and he was hauled over the coals for taking free glasses and suits. “Zack Polanski got into trouble over not paying his council tax. “Boris Johnson was investigated over whether a wealthy donor paid for expensive wallpaper in the Downing Street flat. “You have repeatedly told the public, ‘it’s unfair, it’s only on you’. It’s not true. That is the scrutiny that comes with you seeking to be prime minister.” “I don’t think the others have been debanked,’ Farage hit back. “I don’t think the others have been kicked out by their pension provider. I don’t think the others have literally had an attempt to wipe them out of society, and their families as well.” He added: “There is no doubt there is huge political prejudice against Reform right across the corporate world and right across the establishment.” Kuenssberg replied: “But where’s your evidence that questions about your financial affairs that are being asked again and again and again – even your own mistake not reporting things properly to the parliamentary authorities on 17 different occasions. “Where’s your evidence that’s some stitch-up, some big plot? It sounds like you’re just saying ‘poor me’.” He denied that, insisting he understood the scrutiny that comes with being a politician close to power. He said it was “clerical error” that led to late declarations, but added: “Politics is now a big money game. The Treasurer of Reform will got to prison if things are got wrong.” Farage claimed there was “no money in politics” back in 2024, shortly before running to be the Clacton MP. Listen to Commons People, the podcast that makes politics easy. Every week, Kevin Schofield and Kate Nicholson unpack the week’s biggest stories to keep you informed. Join us for straightforward analysis of what’s going on at Westminster. Related... 'I Wasn't Even Listening': Nigel Farage Comes Up With New Excuse Amid Reform Funding Row Zia Yusuf Accused Of Plotting To Replace Nigel Farage Amid Donations Row Jack-The-Lad-Dery': Farage Plays Down Donations Row, Insisting It Stems From 'Loose Pub Talk'