In early 2019, a suited man with short silver hair arrived at the offices of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party in central London and began settling in ahead of the European elections that May.
Christopher Harborne, who had recently given the party £200,000, set up several work screens along with a coffee machine and a fridge stocked with gin, tonic and limes, according to a person present in the office at the time.
“He’s not a back-seat driver. He didn’t interfere in any way, he just enjoyed being there and watching it all happen through osmosis,” said the person, now a senior figure in Reform UK, the Brexit party’s successor.
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