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Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

About the Series

A radical network of politicians, think tanks, lobby groups, and media outlets is attempting to scupper the UK’s clean energy transition by pumping out climate science denial. In this series, DeSmog unearths the big money backers behind this anti-climate project, which is polluting British democracy.

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uk/Who Funds Reform UK? The Business Interests of Nigel Farage’s Major Donors
ByMax Colbert
on
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne aren’t the party’s only big money backers.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
uk/Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
BySam Bright
on
Farage’s party was last week exposed trying to solicit foreign donations from undercover reporters.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
uk/Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
BySam Bright and Olly Haynes
on
Trump’s commerce chief has been promoting the business interests of Farage’s main donor.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
uk/Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
BySam Bright
on
New controversy adds to scrutiny of party's finances.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform MP Sarah Pochin (middle) alongside party leader Nigel Farage (right) and MP Lee Anderson (left). Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform
ByMax Colbert
on
Nigel Farage’s donors include Mayfair club owners, fox hunt masters, and the landed gentry.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Nigel Farage and ‘Posh George’ Cottrell (right) in January 2020. Credit: PA Images
uk/Nigel Farage Made £2.3 Million in Two Years While Serving as Clacton’s MP
BySam Bright
on
The Reform leader pocketed major sums from second jobs and donor gifts.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking in the House of Commons. Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
uk/Major Reform Donors Featured in Tax Haven Database
ByMax Colbert
on
Farage’s party has accepted more than £16 million since the last election from those listed in offshore leaks.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: Reform UK / YouTube (Farage)
uk/Farage and Truss Jamboree Backed by Crypto Lobbyists
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
CPAC GB partners with Bitcoin network as Reform leader comes under fire for industry connections.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Credit: Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
uk/Paul Marshall ‘Cashing in on Climate Chaos’ After Leap in Fossil Fuel Investments, Critics Say
BySam Bright and Damian Carrington
on
The GB News co-owner’s hedge fund has multiplied its oil and gas holdings.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
GB News co-owner Paul Marshall at the 2026 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference. Credit: ARC / YouTube
uk/Senior UK Politicians to Mix With Oil Execs, Far-Right Figures, and Anti-Abortion Activists at London Conference
ByUnearthed Reporters and Sam Bright
on
Parliamentarians are “lending legitimacy” to a “toxic alliance” of attendees at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event, campaigners warn.
Series: Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
uk/Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson Have Made £1 Million from GB News
BySam Bright
on
The broadcaster has been accused of becoming “Reform TV”.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and chair Lee Anderson on GB News in June 2023. Credit: GB News / YouTube
Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland
ByMarta Kasztelan, Adam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
Lois Perry, who helps to run Reform Friends of Israel, is one of the figures behind a new Heartland Institute branch in central Europe.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Heartland UK-Europe executive director Lois Perry speaking to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on his GB News show. Credit: GB News / YouTube
Analysis
uk/How Will Reform Rule Affect Local Climate Policy?
ByAdam Barnett
on
Farage’s party has shown over the last year that it will attempt to block and reverse clean energy initiatives in its new councils.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf and leader Nigel Farage. Credit: Imageplotter / Alamy Stock Photo
uk/Nigel Farage Has Accepted £2 Million Since Becoming an MP
BySam Bright
on
The Green Party has accused Farage of being “focused on personal gain and public division”.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
uk/Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform
ByJoey Grostern
on
The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform leader Nigel Farage, and Zia Yusuf at a press conference on 20 April 2026. Credit: Karl Black/Alamy Live News
uk/Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions
BySam Bright
on
Live tracker of the Reform leader’s personal income.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Image adapted by DeSmog. Credit: Laurie Noble / UK Parliament (CC-BY-3.0)
uk/Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
BySam Bright
on
A-third of the Reform leader’s income has come from overseas interests since he became an MP.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
President Donald Trump and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at CPAC in 2018. Credit: Shealah Craighead / White House (Public domain)
uk/Reform’s Matthew Goodwin Challenged on Orbán Funding Ties at Budapest Event
BySam Bright
on
The GB News presenter didn’t deny still receiving income from a Hungarian think tank.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK politician Matthew Goodwin at an MCC event in Budapest on 13 April.
uk/Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network
ByAdam Barnett
on
Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Analysis
uk/The Vested Interests Lobbying for North Sea Oil and Gas Expansion
BySam Bright
on
Fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers have been leading the charge for more drilling.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking at a North Sea oil rig owned by a Conservative donor in March 2026. Credit: PA Images
uk/Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group
BySam Bright
on
The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. Credit: Daily Express / YouTube
The SNP’s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate
ByDaniel Shailer
on
The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
SNP Shetland candidate Hannah Goodlad (left) speaking at an event in February 2026 alongside Scottish First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney (right). Credit: SNP / YouTube
Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events
ByAdam Barnett
on
The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Front covers of the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. Credit: PA Images / Alamy
Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
ByAdam Barnett
on
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy, MAGA
Reform UK’s Matthew Goodwin speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Brussels in 2024. Credit: National Conservatism / YouTube
Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund
ByAdam Barnett, Clare Carlile and Sam Bright
on
UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”.
Series: MAGA, Defending-UK-Democracy
U.S. President Donald Trump in front of a collage of U.S., UK and EU flags. Credit: NATO (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Claire Coutinho Touts Anti-Net Zero Reports by Oil-Linked Authors
ByAdam Barnett
on
Tory energy chief endorses debunked studies written by fossil fuel industry interests.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Claire Coutinho, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Credit: Martyn Wheatley CCHQ / Parsons Media (CC BY 2.0)
uk/Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer
ByAdam Barnett
on
Nigel Farage and his colleagues have close ties to the autocratic petrostate.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Nadhim Zahawi at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA (CC BY 2.0)
uk/Nigel Farage Racks Up £151,000 in Donor-Funded Flights to Support Donald Trump
BySam Bright
on
The Reform leader has been jetting around the world to promote Trump’s climate denial agenda.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at CPAC in February 2025. Credit: Joshua Sukoff
uk/Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
Key members of Nigel Farage’s pro-oil party have been forging financial ties to the UAE.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform leader Nigel Farage, deputy leader Richard Tice, and treasurer Nick Candy in front of the UAE flag. A DeSmog collage. Credit: Reform UK / YouTube (Tice); Gage Skidmore / Flickr (Farage); GB News (Candy); Nicolas Raymond / Flickr (UAE flag)
uk/Nigel Farage Accepted £10,000 Gifts from Petrostate
BySam Bright
on
The leader of Reform, a pro-oil party, received lavish hospitality from Abu Dhabi.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, December 2025. Credit: Nigel Farage / X
uk/The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
BySam Bright
on
“Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
The Institute of Economic Affairs logo flanked by a cutout of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the logos of BP and Shell. A DeSmog collage. Credit: Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA logo), BP (BP logo), Shell (Shell logo), Hudson Institute / Flickr (Murdoch - CC-BY-2.0)
uk/Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA
BySam Bright
on
The regulator’s findings came a day before the Tufton Street group appointed a climate denial peer as its new boss.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
A DeSmog collage. The Institute of Economic Affairs has its headquarters on Lord North Street, Westminster. Credit: Des Blenkinsopp (CC BY-SA 2.0)
uk/Reform Conference Sponsor Called Farage’s Rhetoric ‘Very Far-Right’
ByJoey Grostern and Sam Bright
on
A media CEO who helped to stage an event with Reform’s main U.S. ally has publicly denounced the party’s leader.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
The Heartland Institute’s event at Reform UK’s 2025 annual conference, sponsored by Quews News. Credit: FE Week
uk/Farage to Share Stage with Architects of Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda
ByAdam Barnett
on
The Reform leader will be skipping Parliament again in favour of a conference in Washington DC.
Series: MAGA, Defending-UK-Democracy
Nigel Farage at the 2024 National Conservatism conference in Brussels. Credit: Belga News Agency / Alamy
uk/Labour’s New Data Law is a ‘Blank Cheque’ for Farage to DOGE Britain
ByRei Takver
on
A “rogue” government could seize sensitive information on UK residents, data privacy experts fear.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street. Credit: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
uk/Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival
ByJoey Grostern and Sam Bright
on
An academic with ties to Reform slammed the UK’s strong support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
University of Cambridge academic and Reform UK senior advisor James Orr. Credit: MCC Brussels / X
uk/Reform Accused of ‘Cash for Access’ Over £250,000 Champagne Breakfast With Nigel Farage
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
The party is allowing corporate executives to buy time with Farage at its annual conference.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the party’s 2024 conference in Birmingham. Credit: Reform UK / YouTube
uk/With Friends Like These: Nigel Farage’s Year of Speaking at Radical Right-Wing Groups
ByAdam Barnett and Rei Takver
on
The Reform UK leader has addressed several anti-climate outfits with ties to Donald Trump – while making nearly £1 million on top of his MP’s salary.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Credit: Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
uk/Nigel Farage Has Mentioned Clacton Only Four Times in Commons
BySam Bright
on
The Reform leader has barely spoken about his constituency, a deprived area at high risk from the effects of climate change.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: BBC Parliament
uk/Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
A U.S. group with close ties to the Trump administration is convening the panel in Westminster.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo / Alastair Grant
uk/Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers
BySam Bright
on
Kemi Badenoch’s party has been receiving money from fossil fuel interests while pursuing anti-climate policies.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. Credit: Credit: CCHQ / Flickr / Ed Massey (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Thames Water’s Prospective New Owner Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration
BySam Bright and Adam Barnett
on
The U.S. private equity firm KKR contributed to the president’s swearing-in ceremony.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
U.S. President Donald Trump next to the Thames Water and KKR logos. DeSmog collage. Credit: Gage Skidmore / Thames Water / KKR
uk/Farage’s Top Fundraiser Targets Oil and Gas Donations
BySam Bright
on
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy has been attempting to extract cash from fossil fuel executives.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy in front of an oil extraction site. DeSmog collage. Credit: GB News / YouTube / Damien Goodyear / SOPA Images / Alamy
uk/New Reform Think Tank ‘Resolute 1850’ Run by Mining Magnates
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
The group plans to attract donations from U.S. backers allied to Donald Trump.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: PA Images / Alamy
uk/‘I’m Not a Scientist’: Net Zero Opponent Nigel Farage Admits Climate Ignorance
ByAdam Barnett
on
The Reform UK leader reiterated false climate claims at Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship event in London.
Series: Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the 2025 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference. Credit: ARC / YouTube
uk/Nigel Farage Spreads Far-Right Conspiracy Theory at Farming Protest
ByJoey Grostern and Clare Carlile
on
The Reform UK leader baselessly suggested that farms were being cleared to make way for immigrants.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attends a farmers’ protest at Belmont Farm in North London. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
uk/Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to Speak at ‘Glastonbury for Climate Deniers’
BySam Bright
on
A pro-Trump, pro-oil oligarchy is being convened by a group backed by the owners of GB News, campaigners say.
Series: MAGA, Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch at the 2023 Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference. Credit: ARC / YouTube
uk/Fossil Fuel Advocate Nigel Farage is Building a House in High Climate Risk Area
BySam Bright
on
The Reform UK leader is betting his home on climate denial, campaigners say.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage looking at the floodwater in Burrowbridge, Somerset. Credit: PA Images / Alamy
uk/Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK
BySam Bright
on
The Heartland Institute, which questions human-made climate change, has established a new branch in London.
Series: MAGA, Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at the Heartland Institute’s 40th anniversary fundraiser in September 2024. Credit: Heartland Institute / YouTube
uk/‘Net Zero Sceptic’ Kemi Badenoch Accepted £10,000 from Chevron Director
BySam Bright
on
Badenoch’s leadership campaign was part-funded by a board member at one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. Credit: Credit: Conservative Party / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Tory Peer With Oil and Gas Investments Slams Climate Targets in House of Lords
BySam Bright
on
Lord Moynihan of Chelsea, who holds shares in Shell and TotalEnergies, called the green transition a “children’s crusade”.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative peer Lord Moynihan of Chelsea. Credit: BBC Parliament
uk/Conservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors
ByAndrew Kersley
on
Figures linked to the Global Warming Policy Foundation have handed huge sums to the Tories.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Major Tory donor Lord Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Credit: Sir Michael Hintze (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
uk/Nigel Farage Goes on Pro-Fossil Fuel Rant at Fundraiser for Climate Denial Group
BySam Bright and Adam Barnett
on
Tickets at the event in Chicago cost up to $50,000 for the chance to have dinner with the Reform UK leader.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at at a “Liberty for Trump” event at the Graduate Hotel in Tempe, Arizona. Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
uk/Climate Denial Funder Pumps Another £30,000 into Tory Leadership Race
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
Tory peer and major party donor Michael Hintze has funded the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Conservative MP James Cleverly. Credit: Andy Taylor / Home Office (CC BY 2.0)
uk/Two-Thirds of People in Climate Denier Nigel Farage’s Constituency Are Worried About Rising Temperatures
BySam Bright
on
Clacton is uniquely exposed to rising sea levels, but local voters are unlikely to find a champion in their new MP.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Clacton MP and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivering a victory speech on 5 July 2024. Credit: Bloomberg Television / YouTube
Analysis
uk/Here’s What Nigel Farage’s Reform Party MPs Have to Say About Climate Change
ByAdam Barnett
on
The intake includes a property developer who dubbed CO2 merely “plant food” and the former chair of Southampton Football Club, who blames wildfires entirely on arsonists.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK MPs Lee Anderson, Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage and Richard Tice arrive at the House of Commons in Westminster on 9 July. Credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage Spreads Climate Denial with Conspiracy Groups in Clacton-on-Sea
ByAdam Barnett
on
Interviewed at a bikers cafe, Farage said the UK’s legally binding commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions would “make absolutely almost no difference whatsoever”.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was interviewed by Together Declaration leader Alan D.Miller at a bikers cafe on June 15. Credit: YouTube screenshot
uk/Major Donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Owns Russian Assets
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
Reform’s leader has been criticised in recent days for claiming the west provoked Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
GB News presenter Nigel Farage. Credit: SOPA Images / Alamy
uk/Labour’s Shadow Decarbonisation Minister Received Sponsorship from Gas Industry Lobbyists
BySam Bright and Adam Barnett
on
Sarah Jones ran a fundraising event with the help of a pro-hydrogen group backed by a major Tory donor.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Sarah Jones, Labour’s shadow minister for industry and decarbonisation. Credit: Sky News / Facebook
uk/Conservative Party Received 40 Percent of its Donations from Fossil Fuel Interests in First Week of Campaign
BySam Bright and Peter Geoghegan
on
Rishi Sunak’s Tories accepted hundreds of thousands from major donors with financial ties to the oil and gas industry.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tours a Shell gas plant in Aberdeen in July 2023. Credit: Number 10 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Climate Denier Nigel Farage Standing in Seat at Risk of Sea Level Rises and Flooding
BySam Bright and Adam Barnett
on
Scientific modelling indicates that areas of Clacton could be submerged annually.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage campaigning in Clacton, Essex. Credit: Nigel Farage / X
uk/Who Funds Reform? Nigel Farage’s Party Received 92 Percent of its Donations from Fossil Fuel Interests, Polluters, and Climate Deniers
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
The anti-net zero party has been bankrolled by oil and gas investors, aviation entrepreneurs, and those who reject climate science.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, and deputy leader Richard Tice. Photo: Sipa US / Alamy
uk/Nigel Farage’s Anti-Climate Record
BySam Bright
on
The Reform UK leader is a vocal opponent of net zero policies, and has questioned the basis of established climate science.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage speaking at a Reform UK press conference on 3 June 2024. Credit: Reform UK / YouTube
uk/Tories Have Received £8.4 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Polluters, and Climate Deniers Since 2019 Election
BySam Bright
on
“Outrageous” findings show that the Conservative Party “is clearly in bed with the fossil fuel lobby”, say MPs and campaigners.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Credit: Associated Press / Alamy
uk/Revealed: Reform Party Accepts £10k Donation from Disgraced Financier Crispin Odey
ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright
on
The Electoral Commission said it would consider enforcement action after the anti-net zero party inaccurately reported a different name on the donation.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey. Credit: PA Images / Alamy
uk/Conservative Faction Receives £50,000 from GB News Owner
BySam Bright
on
The Dubai-based Legatum Group funds multiple organisations that have advocated against climate action.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
New Conservatives co-chair Danny Kruger speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in November 2023. Credit: ARC Forum (CC0 1.0)
uk/Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder
BySam Bright
on
Michael Hintze, one of the early backers of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, also donated to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay in 2023.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho. Credit: Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
uk/Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests
ByAdam Barnett
on
All of the anti-net zero party’s funders in 2023 have oil and gas investments or ties to climate science denial.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Nigel Farage, Reform UK's leader. Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA-ND 2.0)
uk/Nigel Farage’s 'Net Zero Referendum' Drive is Steeped in Climate Science Denial
ByAdam Barnett
on
‘Vote Power, Not Poverty’ co-founder Richard Tice says politicians want to make money from the “green agenda” while Farage has campaigned against climate action for years.
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy
Nigel Farage
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