Tether shareholder pays £5M to keep Nigel Farage safe and secure

Tether shareholder and billionaire tycoon Christopher Harborne gave Nigel Farage £5 million ($6.7 million) shortly before the Reform UK leader backtracked on claims he wasn‘t planning to stand in the UK’s 2024 general election.

Farage declared in May 2024 that he wouldn‘t be running to become an MP. However, by July of that same year, he announced that he’d be standing in the constituency of Clacton.

revealed that at some point before his seemingly spur of the moment election bid, Farage received the multi-million-dollar gift from Harborne.

The gift was kept under wraps and not publicly disclosed — which it didnt legally have to be, as it was technically given before Farage announced his bid for Parliament.

Farage pre-emptively attacked report via an article in that was published hours before, titled “Farage: My home was firebombed.”

In this piece, Farage claims that Harborne gave him the money “so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life.”

He notes that Harborne, “is an ardent supporter who is deeply concerned for my safety,” and bemoaned the lack of security funding from the government.

Farage also revealed that he was a victim of an arson attack on his home last year.

“I would rather not be discussing any of this,” he told , but I am having to because someone has got hold of material about my private finances, which is outrageous, and which I believe was illegally obtained.

Reform UK pushed piece back so Farage could spin

When approached Farage and Harborne, neither would respond with a comment. Instead, Reform UK lawyers asked for piece to be pushed back a few days.

agreed and gave a deadline for today. published its Farage interview before this deadline.

Harborne is a wealthy crypto tycoon who also has investments in aviation and defence firms, and has donated over £22 million ($29 million) to Reform UK over the past seven years. He also has significant holdings in Ethereum and Tether.

has questioned Farage‘s love for crypto, and whether it corresponds with Harborne’s donations to the UKs Conservative and Brexit parties in 2019.

In one instance in 2025, Farage promoted Tether on a UK talk show one month after Harborne donated £9 million to Reform UK.