In Birmingham, Nigel Farage faced the oldest of political predicaments — the moment when a leader's trusted circle becomes the source of his undoing. Two senior Reform UK officials were suspended after undercover footage captured what appeared to be a deliberate scheme to launder foreign donations through a fictitious American benefactor, violating British political funding law. The Metropolitan Police are now weighing a full investigation, and Farage — caught on camera appearing to bless the arrangement — finds himself arguing that he was merely a bystander in a room he attended, at a lunch h