Nigel Farage has apologised after being found to have breached MPs rules on outside earnings seventeen times. The Reform leader broke the code of conduct by failing to declare more than £384,000 from jobs including presenting on GB News and promoting a gold bullion firm. Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg launched a formal investigation into Mr Farage's wider financial affairs following a complaint from a member of the public. The Reform leader is one of the MPs with the highest earnings from second jobs he does on top of his £94,000 role as MP for Clacton.

He rakes in more than £1million in 2025 from jobs including presenting on television and producing personalised video messages on the Cameo website. But MPs have to declare any payments in the Register of Interests within 28 days of receipt and he did not do so on 17 occasions. In a report released today, Mr Greenberg said the rule breaches had been 'inadvertent because of staffing and other administrative issues' and decided not to refer the matter to the Committee on Standards. In a letter to the watchdog, Mr Farage said was 'sincerely sorry,' blaming the error on the sheer number of well-paid outside jobs he does.

'Unlike most Members, I have a very complicated and complex set of interests, including my work as a TV presenter and as a successful private businessman, most of which were built long before I was elected as a Member of Parliament,' he said. 'Compared to most MPs, I have an unusually high number of interests which need to be declared, and I have always and will always continue to declare these. 'Please let me reassure you, there was no malicious intent to deceive or mislead you or the public in the lateness of these declarations; it was an honest and genuine error.'

A Labour Party spokesman said: 'Nigel Farage is so distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party that he can't even get the basics right. He isn't on the side of working people - he's just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents.' The interests he failed to declare by the deadline included payments from Google and from GB News, where he presents a show, and for speaking engagements for US-based global consulting firm Imperial Independent Media. He logged six payments from GB News late, including one lump sum of £51,438 reported 36 days after the deadline.

Other payments were £91,200 from Direct Bullion, a London-based gold dealer Mr Farage helped advertise, and £17,173.76 from Cameo, an app and website service which enables people to ask their favourite celebrities or public figures to record personalised messages. 'Mr Farage has acknowledged and apologised for his breaches of the rules,' Mr Greenberg said at the conclusion of his three-month probe, adding that the interests in question will be added to the next register. Mr Farage is travelling to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, where he is scheduled to give a speech on Wednesday afternoon. In a letter on December 2, Mr Farage also said: 'I have been extremely let down by a very senior member of staff.'

A transcript of a meeting between Mr Farage and Mr Greenberg on December 11 shows the Reform UK leader saying he was 'shocked' by the 'gross administrative error'. He told the commissioner: 'You may say, why don't I enter those things myself? Well I don't do computers… So I rely on other people to do those things for me.' He also complained the system is 'not designed for people like me,' saying: 'I'm not making any money as a result of being an MP, quite the opposite, I'm making it because I'm Nigel Farage and I've got other interests.'