Not everyone that votes for Reform are racist; but all racists vote for Reform.
Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
Nigel Farage’s record-beating election war chest is being bankrolled by a donor whose fortune is entangled with a major video platform which has hosted Russian state broadcasters supporting Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and an influence operation hatched by Russian intelligence.
Christopher Harborne – the Thailand-based billionaire who has given Reform UK £9 million in cash, making him Britain’s single largest political donor – is already known as a cryptocurrency investor and long-time Farage backer. He is also a major shareholder in the stablecoin company Tether and the British defence firm QinetiQ, which supplies the Ministry of Defence and allied militaries.
What has not been scrutinised until now is how Harborne’s stake in Tether ties his profits to Rumble: a “free speech” video platform that refused to ban Russian state media after the invasion, and has since hosted a Kremlin-backed influence operation exposed by the US Department of Justice.
