The Farage Saga Cast List:

Nigel Farage MP, formerly MEP, Currently Leader of Reform

Ms Laure Ferrari French politician; previously head of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), partner of MP Nigel Farage; owns a house in Clacton, aged 46.

Ms Annabelle Fuller - Farage's ex-mistress and his former speechwriter.

Do you remember how Farage went on to appoint Ms Ferrari as a parliamentary assistant in charge of environmental issues in the UK while he was still “in flagrante delicto” with Ms Fuller?

That was Ferrari’s first-ever job in politics. Without any shame, he moved her into his three-bedroom West London home (Chelsea) as “a lodger”, claiming she had nowhere else to live. It was around this same time that she led a Eurosceptic think tank accused of illegally diverting £400,000 of public funds to UKIP, ahead of the UK general election and Brexit referendum.

On November 5^th, Ferrari will be in court following investigations for financial crime and inappropriate use of hundreds of thousands of euros funded from the European Commission.

If this were any other politician or the leader of any other party, and given that the polls are showing Farage as the “next” Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, this would be an enormous story.

There have been questions raised about Nigel Farage’s house in his constituency because it was under her name. Questions have also been raised about Ms Ferrari’s private wealth (Farage’s words) and her ability to buy a property without a mortgage for £880,000.

Further probing raises more queries:

1. Initial investigations show she was not from a wealthy family.

2. How can you buy a house having not earnt a vast amount as an executive director of a Think Tank, which is no longer running?

3. How and from where could she find £880,000 to buy this house.

There are quite a lot of questions here.

Nigel Farage is very good at PR and will be wriggling out of knotty problems, but I do think there will be question marks hanging over him.

Ferrari has stated that the investigation was the result of a politically biased part of the European Parliament and fake accusations leaked by a hostile MEP.

These allegations are deemed not serious at all and strenuously denied by Ferrari; she narrates that this is really nothing to do with Nigel Farage, that they are not married and that they are obviously together in a romantic sense only.

I think there are questions to be answered about the living arrangements in Clacton, but Nigel Farage has an answer for that whenever he is interviewed, he states that he doesn’t want his name to be on the documents for the property because of the very obvious security risks.

Nigel Farage rightly or wrongly manages to explain himself out of these difficult situations in a way which other politicians might find impossible.

I was listening to a recording from their conference. There were quite a lot of Reform supporters at their conference who appear very committed to Nigel Farage. It is almost like a Nigel Farage fan club, a bit like “Maga” in U.S.

But I’m not sure that this tribe is ultimately going to impact on Nigel Farage’s success at the polls.

One has to observe that Angela Rayner, deputy PM and deputy leader of the Labour party, resigned for a tax miscalculation of about £40,000. Others have not felt the same pressure doesn’t matter whether went for “big money” or “spare change”, for example: Tory Baroness Mone(y) stealing £122 million, former Tory MP and chancellor Nadhim Zahawi forgetting to pay £5 million of tax, former Environment Secretary Tory MP Theresa Villiers failing to declare £70,000 of Shell shares . . . .

I guess £880,000 between friends is OK, then?