‘I can’t be bought,’ says Nige – just when it rather looks as if he can | John Crace

Just as the party leader had hoped to change the narrative, along came Channel 4 to spoil his conference fun Why, oh why, oh why? You could almost feel Nigel Farage’s frustration. Why was it always him? Surely it was about time that someone gave him a break. There he was trying to earn some money from a Thai crypto billionaire and a gold bullion dealer, and yet still Reform kept getting linked to dodgy cash. It was almost as if a pattern was emerging. First there was the £5m gift, then the Posh…