Nigel Farage has admitted he doesn’t own a house in Clacton, and was wrong to claim he had.
Last November, Farage claimed he had “just exchanged contracts on a house” in the Essex constituency he represents, adding: “I’m telling you, I have bought a house in Clacton. What more do you want me to do? What more can I do?”
But over the weekend, the Reform UK leader admitted he misspoke when he said this, and that the property is actually fully owned by his long-term partner.
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Speaking to Sky News on the final day of Reform’s conference in Birmingham, Farage said: “I should have said ‘we’.”
When he was pushed by Sky’s Beth Rigby, he added: “I should, I should have said ‘we’. All right? My partner bought it, so what?”
He continued: “All right. I shouldn’t have said ‘we’. I should have said ‘we’. It’s her money. It’s her asset. I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.”
Farage added: “You know what? It’s a really funny thing in life. But sometimes we all say things that we perhaps shouldn’t quite have said.
“I should have rephrased it. I didn’t want to put her [Ferrari] in the public domain.”
The revelation comes as extra scrutiny is put on Farage’s tax affairs, following Angela Rayner’s resignation from government over the amount of stamp duty she paid on a property.
If Farage had owned the Clacton property, he’d have been liable for an additional £44,000 in tax as a second home purchase.
Whilst there is no suggestion Farage has broken any rules by ‘misspeaking’ about who owns the Clacton property, the revelation confirms two things:
- Over a year after being elected Clacton MP, he still does not actually live in the constituency.
- You can never trust a word he says.