BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Nick Robinson: the £5m gift, Andy Burnham, the Makerfield by-election and Brexit

Official title

Will Nigel Farage pay back £5m donation? | BBC Radio 4 Today - YouTube

Speaker

Nigel Farage (Leader of Reform UK and MP for Clacton)

Date delivered

23 Jun 2026

Where

Publisher

YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel)

Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y19UiWDd2Yc

Retrieved

2026-10-09T14:11:38+00:00

SHA-256 of raw file

54bf433eeca4fab44ce9072089eb269a02efad753c020b91daa2928feb89a687

Licence

Standard YouTube licence; transcript from captions, quoted for review

Note on record

Transcript from the video's captions, fetched on 2026-10-09; not an official record. Captions do not say who is speaking: Polifiles assigned each turn by reading the captions, without checking the audio. BBC Politics' upload of the Today programme interview (about 9 minutes). A short trailer clip of the exchange about giving the money back, which opens the video and is repeated later, is left out; the item runs from the first question to his last answer. The captions cut the start of some lines and run the two voices together in places, so short fragments are assigned by meaning, not by the '>>' marks: "Yeah. People vote for individual members of Parliament rather than for leaders in the presidential system. That's the theory, isn't it?" is kept in Nigel Farage's answer, because Nick Robinson replies "you're obviously not convinced"; in the exchange about whether he was in politics, "in politics.", "wasn't politics." and "Yeah, yeah, I I I" are given to Nigel Farage and "I interviewed Farage." to Nick Robinson; in the exchange about the standards inquiry, "Yeah, no, there is" is given to Nigel Farage and "and but but also you have to declare it within a year of becoming a politician..." to Nick Robinson. Trimmed: starts at "Now, for weeks you've been saying vote for us"; ends at "it was absolutely the right thing to do.".

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