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Labour party chair says Reform UK leader must cooperate with authorities instead of trying to distract public with byelection

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The revelation that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers concerned it may have been laundered money has been described as “astonishing and deeply serious”.

Responding to the Guardian story, Anna Turley, the chair of the Labour party, called on Farage to “come clean and cooperate” with the NCA.