Nigel Farage is starting the year the way he ended the last one – making loads of money for doing things unrelated to his work as Member of Parliament for Clacton.
In naming him our Rat of the Year for 2025, we noted how, since becoming an MP, Farage had already banked north of £1m from his work outside Parliament, on top of the £93,904 he receives from what many would consider to be his job. In November last year alone he declared a whopping £207,000 from his varied network of commercial interests, including one of £135,000 from Direct Bullion, the gold firm for which Farage acts as a brand ambassador, for an estimated four hours over three months.
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Now Farage has filed yet more external earnings – and they include almost £28,000 for a single speech in Washington, DC next month to a right wing political organisation that wants to scrap inheritance tax, reduce eligibility to medical care and social security, and opposes action on climate change.
The Reform leader has declared an up-front £27,856.88 from The Club for Growth for a speaking engagement on March 7 in the US capital. The Club for Growth is a deep-pocketed pro-Trump organisation funded by billionaires Jeff Yass and Richard Uihlein which seeks to “exert maximum pressure on lawmakers to vote like free-market, limited government conservatives. And if they don’t, we hold them accountable by publicizing their voting record.”
£28,000 for what Farage estimates in his entry to the House Of Commons’s Register of Members’ Interests is 12 hours’ work – presumably including his flights to the States and and back – is nice work if you can get it. And, with the website PayScale estimating the average salary in Clacton being around £25,000, more than many of his constituents earn in a year.
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