More emerges about Posh George's mother's money

The exact wealth of Fiona Cottrell – the mother of Nigel Farage’s pal Posh George who has been so generous in her recent donations to Reform – may be the matter of much conjecture, but accounts for Tewkesbury Marina, of which she is a director, show it is at least in rude health.

Cottrell is the self-styled “retired stylist” who, in May 2024, gave £500,000 to the party in her own name. The next month, she gave a further £1 million to a company owned by Richard Tice, Farage’s deputy, who then donated half of that sum to Reform.

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It has since emerged that in February last year the Metropolitan Police began a criminal investigation into payments she made, on the basis that she may have “disguised” the source of the donations. Fiona is the mother of “Posh” George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who paid for much of Nigel Farage’s staff, security, accommodation and social media output before the 2024 general election campaign in a series of undisclosed benefits.

Now new filings at Companies House for Tewkesbury Marina, set on the banks of the River Avon in the Gloucestershire countryside, show that Mrs Cottrell retained £1.4 million in the company as of October 31, 2025. The sum was made of £893,561 in ongoing profits, £127,932 in called up share capital and £378,145 held in ‘revaluation reserve’: a smidgen down on the £1,458,815 she held in the firm in 2024.

Its property assets, which number seven titles at the Land Registry, contributed £2.1 million to the £2.7 million held in the company before bills.