Breaking: Reform UK has published its internal investigation into two of Farage's closest allies secretly plotted for a foreign donor to fund off the books polling It has cleared both the party and Dan Jukes and James Orr of wrongdoing. A police investigation is ongoing At the heart of its defence is the claim repeated by Nigel Farage that Jukes was a 'contractor', rather than someone at the heart of the party who was critical to Farage's operation 'Reform UK did not commission any of the three opinion polls. It did not contract for them, was not quoted for them, was not invoiced for them and made no payment for them. It holds no record of any of those things. 'The polls were commissioned by Mr Jukes, a contractor with several clients other than Reform and an independent commercial relationship with the polling company, on his own account and at his own risk. 'The findings of each poll, and the underlying tables, entered the public domain on publication. Nothing was supplied to the party before publication or beyond what was published'