one of Farage’s houses in Lydd-on-Sea
After Angela Rayner, the case of Nigel ‘Five Houses’ Farage
The class war right- Tories, the Telegraph and the rest have finally managed to engineer the departure of Angela Rayner on the question of where she does or does not live and how much tax has been paid. It might be suggested given the gender and age of those involved that the actual obsession is with Ms Rayner rather than her properties.
A particular focus is on a property she has bought in Hove. She has admitted to an error in duty paid (or rather not paid) and now resigned following a report from the Government’s ethics advisor.
Hove is a good place to watch cricket certainly and a favourite spot of both Marx and Engels. I’m not an expert in the Hove property market fortunately but I doubt the price paid was anything out of the ordinary. Whether this is a good look for a now ex-Labour Minister is a question, perhaps more particularly how many properties are actually required. Most people struggle to keep one.
Meanwhile another politician who owns lots of houses in one form or another is Nigel Farage
Joint research by the Mirror and the Good Law Project in 2024 and early 2025 revealed that the Reform UK owner has four houses in the South of England as well as the one in Clacton he eventually acquired being the local MP (which is owned by his partner, no doubt for prudent financial reasons, in particular the legal avoidance of paying higher Stamp Tax).
Farage owns the house he shared with his ex-wife, two properties near Dungeness, one of which is reported to be rented out and another rental property in Surrey. The Dungeness houses are in fact officially owned by Farage’s Thorn in the Side company, which also receives his earnings from his GB News blatherings. Again that is a legal tax avoidance move.
Of course it is far from unique for both Tory and Labour MPs to be involved in property but Farage styles himself as a man of the people rather than a millionaire property owner. Farage said in 2024 that Britain has a housing crisis and given how busy he clearly is managing five properties must be a struggle
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-nigel-farages-3m-four-33575119
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