While the Reform leader casts himself as the victim questions about his finances are unlikely to disappear Farage quits as an MP amid scrutiny of his finances For Nigel Farage, a year that was progressing quite nicely started to go wrong when the Guardian revealed he had received an undeclared gift of £5m from a crypto billionaire. Just 10 weeks later, he has been pushed into perhaps one of the biggest gambles of his political career. That gamble is seemingly not with his role as an MP. Farage