My theory is that the guardian reported on his 5 million, the right wing media realised they couldn’t just ignore it because it was such a huge revelation, so they had to report on it to seem more credible, then off the back of that he started slagging off the Times et al, which further pissed them off and has been his downfall.
Either that or Ben Habib and/ or Rupert Lowe has leaked stuff to the press about him (Lets not forget, he threatened to sue Ben Habib over his revelations about Farage’s and Johnson’s Brexit bungs). They had a very acrimonious fall out, and right wing figures always tend to fall out with each other because of competing egos. Rupert Lowe also has his rival party.