Mother of Nigel Farage’s aide George Cottrell gives £500,000 to Reform
Nigel Farage’s Reform party has attracted a new cadre of big donors including £500,000 from Fiona Cottrell, the mother of his high-profile, unpaid aide George Cottrell.
George Cottrell was regularly at Farage’s side during the election campaign, including when he had a milkshake thrown at him in Clacton. A former head of fundraising for Ukip, Cottrell spent eight months in an American jail in 2016/2017 after being accused of offering money-laundering services on the dark web. He served time for a single count of wire fraud after 20 other charges were dropped as part of a plea deal.
More recently, he has been living in Montenegro and told Tatler in a profile interview this month that he had lost $53m in a single night a casino, following reports that he had lost $20m.