Nigel Farage has breached the MPs’ code of conduct 17 times by failing to register financial interests on time, a probe by the parliamentary commissioner for standards has concluded.
The 17 breaches by the Reform UK leader, who was elected in July 2024, added up to more than £380,000 in outside earnings, including payments for his appearances on GB News and money earned through the Cameo app.
Mr Farage – who has previously faced criticism for his significant earnings outside of his £93,904 per year MP’s salary – has now been accused of being “distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party” and failing to “get the basics right”.
Reform have declined to comment on the verdict but a party source said that Mr Farage had been late in declaring the earnings.
In the report published on Tuesday, standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg said: “Following a complaint from a member of the public that Mr Nigel Farage had registered interests outside the 28-day time limit set by the House, I undertook a wider review of Mr Farage’s entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
“Having done so, I identified several other interests that appeared to have been registered late, and I opened a formal inquiry on 30 October 2025 to investigate Mr Farage’s compliance with Rule 5 of the Code of Conduct.
“During my investigation, I established that there had been seventeen breaches of Rule 5 of the Code by Mr Farage’s failure to add interests within the 28-day period set by the House.”
Following the investigation, Mr Greenberg said that he had concluded the breaches were “inadvertent” and due to “staffing and other administrative issues”.
He added that the Reform leader had apologised and had promised to meet the deadline in the future.
In a meeting in December, Mr Farage told Mr Greenberg that the late declarations were a result of “severe growing pains” in his party, adding: “The only explanation is that our political lives have exploded in the last 18 months in ways that we could never have comprehended. We are overwhelmed in every sense.
“Even my MP e-mail gets 1,000 emails a day. And we’ve basically failed to cope with, to be frank, not just with this, but with many other things too.”
But a Labour Party spokesperson said: “Nigel Farage is so distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party that he can’t even get the basics right. He isn’t on the side of working people – he’s just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents.
“He boasts about making money ‘because I’m Nigel Farage’, raking in millions through various outside jobs. But he neglects to do the important work that hard-pressed taxpayers fork out for him to do.
“Labour will tighten the rules on MPs’ second jobs to make sure the public get the attention they expect and deserve from their elected representatives.”
Nevertheless one ally of Mr Farage pointed out that Sir Keir Starmer also admitted he had been late in making declarations before the election when he was found to have made eight breaches.
