The Labour party has written to Nigel Farage urging him to stop “evading reasonable scrutiny” over the £5m personal gift he received from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.

The letter coincides with approval of a planning application that reveals the Reform leader’s plans to transform a dilapidated Kent property into a luxury beachfront residence.

Farage is under investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner after the Guardian revealed that he received the £5m gift in the weeks before he U-turned on his decision not to stand as an MP in the 2024 general election.

He was subsequently elected to parliament as the MP for Clacton in Essex and kept a high media profile with weekly press conferences….