Nigel Farage resigned as MP for Clacton on Tuesday and stated he will contest the resulting by-election. He received more than £22 million from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne over seven years, including a £5 million payment before the 2024 election, and partial funding from George Cottrell, who has a prior U.S. wire-fraud conviction. Farage asserted in a video statement that he broke no laws and declared only required travel-related donations while recording zero personal MP expenses for his first two years.