Is this why Reform has been so quiet over the Epstein files?

As “Nigel Farage’s People’s Army” and the self-appointed scourge of the global elites, the ongoing blowback from the Epstein files ought to be the perfect campaign material for Reform. Yet Farage, Richard Tice and the rest of the party leadership have barely said a peep about it.

Completely unrelated to this is the number of times the party’s treasurer, the property developer Nick Candy, appears in the millions of pages of documents released by the US Department of Justice.

Appearing in the files is no indication of any wrongdoing, of course – but it is curious how close to the global elite a humble servant of the working man like Candy appears to have been.

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Among the items released is a 2004 email exchange involving Sarah Kellen, a key Epstein associate described by the federal judge at Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2022 sentencing as “criminally responsible” for aspects of the trafficking operation. In that exchange, Candy is apparently told that Maxwell was disappointed he had not informed her of a visit to New York, with the property developer appearing to respond within the same thread.

Both Nick and his developer brother Christian Candy appear in Epstein’s address book, commonly referred to as the “black book”, which contains hundreds of names from Epstein’s extensive social circle. Inclusion in the address book does not, in itself, imply wrongdoing, but it does indicate a certain closeness to the “global elites” which Farage himself announced he was “putting on notice” when he arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.

Some of the communications appear to date from after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. One message dated June 2010, and sent directly to Epstein, attaches details of a flat at 21 Chesham Place in London’s Belgravia, part of a Candy & Candy development, with an asking price of £39.25 million. There is no reporting to suggest that Epstein purchased the property.