Nigel Farage Claimed There's 'No Money in Politics' Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told a right-wing US podcast that there is "no money in politics" before running to be a Member of Parliament last year.
In newly-resurfaced comments from June 2024, while he was still reportedly weighing up whether to stand in the July election, Farage appeared on a pro-Trump online show, 'Ash Wednesday' with MAGA pundit Steven Crowder.
Crowder's platform has been repeatedly sanctioned by YouTube for use of racist and homophobic slurs (2019), false claims about the 2020 election (2021), and for violating the platform's harassment, threats and cyberbullying policy (2022).
Speaking freely to Crowder, Farage explains that as a broadcaster with GB News he's been earning 'good money' for the first time in 30 years. He is paid around £2,300 per hour with the controversial channel, according to his current register of interests.
Farage adds that "people laugh when you tell them this": "There's no money in politics, there's no money if you're straight [i.e. not corrupt]…There's no money in politics."
"[I] had four kids to bring up, dependents etc…So for the first time in 30 years, right, I'm earning good money [and] I'm enjoying life".
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But he then told Crowder: "Maybe there's a historical opportunity in British politics…if anyone can re-galvanise the forces of conservatism in something that is coherent, consistent, bold, but ambitious in terms of the vision, then maybe I'm that soldier. So I've got a big decision to make."
The Brexiteer's constituents may raise an eye-brow at the thought of there being "no money" in an MP's annual salary. The MP wage rose to £93,904 this April, from £91,346 when the anti-migrant politician was elected, and they can claim generous housing and travel allowances. The average salary in Farage's Clacton constituency is around £35,000 a year.
Nigel Farage, who was recently crowned as Britain's highest-earning MP due to his plethora of outside interests, frequently rails against "the political elite". It tallies with his apparent avoidance of Parliament: a recent Hope Not Hate investigation found that in the past year, Farage has spoken fewer times in parliament than any other leader of a British political party with a seat in Westminster.
Farage spoke just 45 times, compared to 226 for Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, 97 for Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, and 152 and 86 respectively for Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, according to the analysis.
The Reform UK leader has also missed a swathe of crucial votes, including key divisions on planning reform, renters' rights, and the winter fuel allowance.
And in May, Farage went on an overseas holiday while parliament was sitting, meaning he missed a debate on the government's post-Brexit EU negotiations.
The former financier has made nearly £135,000 from making personalised C...
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told a right-wing US podcast that there is "no money in politics" before running to be a Member of Parliament last year.
In newly-resurfaced comments from June 2024, while he was still reportedly weighing up whether to stand in the July election, Farage appeared on a pro-Trump online show, 'Ash Wednesday' with MAGA pundit Steven Crowder.
Crowder's platform has been repeatedly sanctioned by YouTube for use of racist and homophobic slurs (2019), false claims about the 2020 election (2021), and for violating the platform's harassment, threats and cyberbullying policy (2022).
Speaking freely to Crowder, Farage explains that as a broadcaster with GB News he's been earning 'good money' for the first time in 30 years. He is paid around £2,300 per hour with the controversial channel, according to his current register of interests.
Farage adds that "people laugh when you tell them this": "There's no money in politics, there's no money if you're straight [i.e. not corrupt]…There's no money in politics."
"[I] had four kids to bring up, dependents etc…So for the first time in 30 years, right, I'm earning good money [and] I'm enjoying life".
holding farage to account #reformUNCOVERED
While most the rest of the media seems to happy to give the handful of Reform MPs undue prominence, Byline Times is committed to tracking the activities of Nigel Farage's party when actually in power.
EXCLUSIVE
Nigel Farage Claimed There's 'No Money in Politics' Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job
11 August 2025
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15 July 2025
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But he then told Crowder: "Maybe there's a historical opportunity in British politics…if anyone can re-galvanise the forces of conservatism in something that is coherent, consistent, bold, but ambitious in terms of the vision, then maybe I'm that soldier. So I've got a big decision to make."
The Brexiteer's constituents may raise an eye-brow at the thought of there being "no money" in an MP's annual salary. The MP wage rose to £93,904 this April, from £91,346 when the anti-migrant politician was elected, and they can claim generous housing and travel allowances. The average salary in Farage's Clacton constituency is around £35,000 a year.
Nigel Farage, who was recently crowned as Britain's highest-earning MP due to his plethora of outside interests, frequently rails against "the political elite". It tallies with his apparent avoidance of Parliament: a recent Hope Not Hate investigation found that in the past year, Farage has spoken fewer times in parliament than any other leader of a British political party with a seat in Westminster.
Farage spoke just 45 times, compared to 226 for Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, 97 for Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, and 152 and 86 respectively for Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, according to the analysis.
The Reform UK leader has also missed a swathe of crucial votes, including key divisions on planning reform, renters' rights, and the winter fuel allowance.
And in May, Farage went on an overseas holiday while parliament was sitting, meaning he missed a debate on the government's post-Brexit EU negotiations.
The former financier has made nearly £135,000 from making personalised C...
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