'Nigel Farage owes public answers - voters have a right to know about his links to convicted fraudster Posh George'

'Nigel Farage owes public answers - voters have a right to know about his links to convicted fraudster Posh George' 'The issue is clear. Voters have a right to know who bankrolls those in power, what they receive in return, and why any support was kept from the public record.' Nigel Farage must answer questions on Posh George links For a man who has made a career out of demanding answers from others, Nigel Farage now owes the public some of his own. The Reform UK leader has been referred to Parliament’s standards watchdog over claims his operation was supported by George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster jailed in America after posing as a man willing to launder criminal cash. Posh George’s crime was not a foolish scrape from a reckless youth. Cottrell admitted to using the web to advertise money-laundering services, setting out how dirty money could be moved and disguised, while secretly planning to pocket it himself. He ended up in a US federal prison. Farage allegedly accepted security, drivers, staff and accommodation funded by the felon without properly declaring it. Reform denies wrongdoing. But the issue is clear. Voters have a right to know who bankrolls those in power, what they receive in return, and why any support was kept from the public record. Farage talks endlessly about clean politics. This looks grubby. Andy Burnham needs more than warm words for housing crisis If Andy Burnham is to become Prime Minister, he must arrive in No. 10 with more than warm words for a generation locked out of home ownership. State-backed deposit loans of up to 40 per cent deserve serious attention if they can help families buy without handing another windfall to developers and lenders. The housing crisis has crushed aspirations, drained pay packets and left too many working people trapped in rented homes they can barely afford. Building the biggest council housing programme since the post-war era would be a bold start, while reforming council tax could make the system fairer. But ambition must be matched by discipline. Labour, by its own admission, failed to prepare for Government properly last time. Mr Burnham cannot repeat that mistake. The door is open. Now build something behind it. Prince Harry trip drama is deeply sad Prince Harry may have genuine security fears, but this latest security drama is deeply sad. The King hoped to see grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, yet duty cannot be rearranged by last-minute theatre. The royal need less briefing, less brinkmanship, and more honest effort to heal old wounds for the children’s sake now, too.