A key ally to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years over cash bribes for pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament .

Nathan Gill , 52, agreed to work for an oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin, accepting stacks of money which were coded in messages as “xmas gifts” and “postcards”.

Gill, a close political ally of Farage through the Brexit years, pleaded guilty to eight charges of bribery between December 6 2018 and July 18 2019.

On Friday, Mrs Justice Cheema Grubb sentenced Gill to ten-and-a-half years in prison, saying he had “corroded” public trust in politicians and she must impose a deterrent sentence.

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