At the close of Reform UK's Birmingham conference, Nigel Farage found himself defending not a policy vision but his own attentiveness, claiming he was too distracted to absorb the details of a foreign donation scheme discussed in his presence. Two senior aides have been suspended following an undercover investigation that exposed apparent efforts to circumvent Britain's electoral funding laws, with £30,000 in American-sourced money already having shaped the party's public polling. The Metropolitan Police are now weighing whether laws were broken, and the episode raises enduring questions about