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  "textContent": "Nigel Farage makes hundreds of thousands of pounds promoting Direct Bullion (Picture: Direct Bullion)\n\nNigel Farage made more than a quarter of a million pounds for just four hours’ work a month promoting gold bullion, according to a new financial declaration.\n\nThe Reform leader works as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion, and the gig has proven to be one of his most lucrative sources of income.\n\nHis latest declaration – £270,000 for working 12 hours over three months – is his largest single payday yet for work outside his role as an MP.\n\nThe register of financial interests also shows he earned £18,402 for an estimated six hours of presenting his show on GB News – working out to more than £3,000 an hour.\n\nThere is one notable absence from his entry in the register, though, with no new declarations of earnings from the video recording site Cameo.\n\nFarage has made almost £90,000 on the platform, which lets members of the public request clips from celebrities, in the past year.\n\n##  Everything is changing, all the time\n\nCut through political noise and understand how the Westminster chaos actually affects your life with Metro's politics newsletter Alright, Gov? Sign up here.\n\nBut he stopped using it earlier this year, following controversy over a number of videos he had made – including one that was used by a far-right group to promote one of their events.\n\nFarages only new declarations in the latest register are from GB News and Direct Bullion.\n\nLabour Party chair Anna Turley said the gold promotion earnings show Farage ‘pretends to be on the side of ordinary working people but in truth he’s just in it for himself and will sell his time to the highest bidder’.\n\nA spokesman for Farage said: ‘As has previously been reported and declared, Nigel Farage is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.’\n\nFarage’s links to crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has drawn attention (Picture: George Cracknell Wright/LNP)\n\nFarage continues to face pressure over a £5,000,000 ‘gift’ from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne in January 2024, before he returned as Reform leader and was voted in as an MP that summer.\n\nThe parliamentary standards watchdog is investigating whether the Clacton MP should have declared the money – a requirement if it was related to his political activity.\n\nFarage has changed his explanation for why he was given the £5 million, initially claiming it was for security before saying it was a ‘reward’ for his years of campaigning for Brexit.\n\nIn several tense TV interviews earlier this month, he refused to say whether he had spent any of the money on security, housing, or anything else.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: ‘Let’s be clear, it’s an unconditional gift. I can spend it on cars if I want to. It’s entirely up to me, right.’\n\nHarborne also funded Farage’s £29,000 flight to the Maldives earlier this year for a visit to the Chagos Islands.\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 makes £270,000 for 12 hours’ work flogging gold bullion"
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