Nigel Farage registered his largest single payment yet for work outside his role as MP for Clacton, which comes with a basic salary of just over £98,000-per-year
Reform chief Nigel Farage declared the six-figure payment as a ‘brand ambassador’ for Direct Bullion(Image: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)
The streets of Westminster are paved with gold for Nigel Farage, who has once again topped up his MP’s salary by flogging bullion.
The Reform UK leader raked in £270,000 for just 12 hours’ work as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion – a rate of £22,500 an hour, more than 1,700 times the national living wage of £12.71.
It is also nearly eight times what the average person in his constituency of Clacton, Essex, earns in a year.
This is the third time a payment from the precious metals dealer has appeared in Mr Farage’s register of interests. He declared £91,200 in February 2025, and £135,000 last November.
It is the largest single payment yet for work outside his role as an MP, which comes with a basic salary of just over £98,000 a year.
Mr Farage declared the payment from Direct Bullion for an estimated four hours of work per month over the course of a three-month period.
Labour chair Anna Turley said: “This shows exactly who Farage is. He 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. He should focus on putting pounds in his constituents’ pockets rather than racking up payments.”
A spokesman for Mr Farage said: “As has previously been declared, Nigel Farage is a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.”
According to the former city trader’s latest register entry, he also earned £18,402 for an estimated six hours of presenting on GB News.
Since becoming an MP in July 2024, the ex-Ukip leader has received more than £2million in income and gifts in total.
House of Commons data shows the median gross weekly wage for a full-time worker in his Clacton constituency is around £684 – or £35,568 – a year.
We reported earlier this month that Mr Farage, who has tried to present himself as being on the side of working people, owns no fewer than four houses.
He also continues to face questions about a £5million gift he received from Thai-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Mr Farage has reasoned that he did not need to declare the gift, made before he announced he would stand for Parliament in 2024, because it was not related to politics.
Parliament’s standards commissioner is investigating whether Mr Farage should have registered the gift. Ininterviews last week, Mr Farage insisted the gift was a “private matter”, and refused to say what he had spent it on.
