Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security
Sorry if this has been posted earlier. Wasn't he using his lottery win for security?
"Nigel Farage turned down taxpayer-funded security including a bodyguard, car and trained driver last year, The i Paper has learned.
The Reform UK leader was offered the protection following police advice on the threats he faced.
He had already been receiving publicly funded security prior to this, and felt that his package had been downgraded."
"The i Paper has learned he was offered a taxpayer-funded bodyguard, car and trained driver supplied by private contractors.
The offer followed a July 2025 review by Parliament’s former security director Alison Giles, and specified that it could be upgraded for more high-risk events.
The royal and VIP executive committee (Ravec), responsible for the security of the royals, the prime minister and the home secretary, was brought in to help assess the threat faced by MPs in February 2024.
One parliamentary source claimed Farage was unhappy with the offer as he wanted security at the same level as the Home Secretary, who has one of the highest levels of protection among government ministers. This was denied as “false” by a Reform spokesman who said the leader did not make specific requests.
The source said: “My understanding is he demanded something akin to what the Home Secretary gets and was denied it and therefore can claim that he was denied proper protection.”"