Having largely, and uncharacteristically, avoided media attention for much of the past couple of months – a period that has coincided with people asking some searching questions about the £5m given to him by a billionaire Reform backer – Nigel Farage returned to the airwaves on Tuesday.

If he had hoped broadcasters, and their listeners, had forgotten about the issue, he was sorely mistaken.

In tetchy interviews with the BBC, LBC Radio and TalkTV, the Reform leader was repeatedly asked to explain why he had accepted a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire living in Thailand.

Here are some of the exchanges.