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"We've already started to hear it in focus groups, 'I thought he was different'" Luke Tryl discusses the potential impact of Nigel Farage receiving a £5m gift from a billionaire backer before he became an MP, adding that it "could deter those wavering Reform voters". #Newsnight
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