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  "textContent": "Farage said a donor had gifted him around £5 million for his security (Picture: Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty Images)\n\nNigel Farage has revealed he was the victim of a firebombing attack at his home last year.\n\nAn incendiary device was pushed through his letterbox in an ‘outright arson attempt’, the Reform UK leader told the Telegraph.\n\nHe said: ‘I wasn’t at home at the time, but when I came back and opened the door I found the damage.\n\n‘Luckily it had burned itself out in the porch, and we think maybe the perpetrators were disturbed in the act.’\n\nNo suspects have been identified so far, he added, though the police were ‘all over it’.\n\nFarage said the scale of threats had led to a seven-figure personal gift from Christopher Harborne, a British billionaire who lives in Thailand, to pay for his security.\n\n##  Want to understand more about how politics affects your life?\n\nMetro's senior politics reporter Craig Munro breaks down all the chaos into easy to follow insight, in **Metro** 's politics newsletter Alright, Gov? Sent every Wednesday. Sign up here.\n\nThe Telegraph reported the gift is in the region of £5 million.\n\nHarborne has drawn attention recently for donating more than £12m to Reform – including £9m in one go last December, the largest single donation by a living person to a UK political party in history.\n\nFarage told the newspaper: ‘I have tried and failed in the past to get security funded by the Home Office and I don’t think the state will ever help me.\n\n‘I’m very much on my own and will be for the rest of my life, and I have to face up to that grim reality.\n\n‘Christopher is an ardent supporter who is deeply concerned for my safety.’\n\nAs the money for security was a personal gift and does not count as a political donation, it was not taxed or declared.\n\nThe Clacton MP has previously spoken out about concerns for his safety after several incidents where milkshakes were thrown at him.\n\nHe said he had not previously disclosed the arson attack on his home as he was worried it would require him to further increase his security.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Nigel Farage says petrol bomb was set alight on porch of his home last year"
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