Farage Pitches Dubai Elite Over Lunch in Push for Donations

Nigel Farage hosted a private lunch event in Dubai on Tuesday with the backing of Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, underscoring the Reform UK party’s embrace of wealthy donors based in the United Arab Emirates.

Farage was accompanied at the event by Nadhim Zahawi, a former Conservative chancellor who recently defected to Reform, and the party’s honorary treasurer Nick Candy, a property developer, according to people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity discussing private matters.