Nigel Farage has registered a £270,000 payment from Direct Bullion for promoting gold bullion – the single biggest payment he has declared since becoming an MP. The Reform UK leader’s latest entry in the register of members’ interests reveals the fee covers an estimated four hours of work per month over three months, meaning the Clacton MP earned £22,500 for each of those 12 hours.
Labour chair Anna Turley said: “Nigel Farage clearly has the Midas touch when it comes to lining his pockets instead of doing his day job.” She added: “He should be focused on putting more pounds back in his Clacton constituents’ pockets rather than racking up payments off the back of gold sales.”
“Nigel Farage declares £270,000 from Direct Bullion for 12 hours' work over three months, his biggest MP payday yet.”
Farage has previously registered payments from Direct Bullion, including £91,200 in February 2025 and £135,000 in November 2025. A spokesman for Farage said: “As has previously been reported and declared, Nigel Farage is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.”
The new declaration also includes £18,402 for an estimated six hours of presenting on GB News – working out to more than £3,000 an hour. But notably absent from the register are any new earnings from the video messaging site Cameo, where Farage has previously made more than £80,000 filming personalised messages. He paused the service in March this year, citing security reasons, after controversy over videos including one used by a far-right group to promote an event.
The gold payment comes as Farage faces a growing standards investigation into an undeclared £5m gift he received from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne in January 2024, before he returned as Reform leader and was elected as an MP. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner is investigating whether Farage broke the rules by not declaring the gift, which would be required if it was related to his political activity.
Farage has offered conflicting explanations for the money, initially claiming it was for security before saying it was a “reward” for his Brexit campaigning. In a BBC Breakfast interview, he said: “Let’s be clear, it’s an unconditional gift. I can spend it on cars if I want to. It’s entirely up to me, right.” He refused to say whether he had spent any of the money on security, housing, or anything else, telling the programme: “It is not the public’s business.”
Turley said the gold earnings show Farage “pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in truth he’s just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder”.
Harborne also funded Farage’s £29,000 flight to the Maldives earlier this year for a visit to the Chagos Islands.