But they never convinced anyone.
Polanski then asked: “Was he [Gill] stood behind Nigel Farage in the picture or was he not?” Yusuf said: “The number of people standing in a photo with Nigel Farage, there would be hundreds of them.”
On Friday, during a campaign visit for the upcoming Caerphilly by-election, Farage acknowledged, for the first time since Gill’s court appearance on 26 September, that he’s known him for years.
He told journalists: “I’d known this person for a very long time, I knew him in the European Parliament in the UKIP days to be a God-fearing Christian, somebody that you would think was the least corruptible person that you would know.”
Farage also claimed he is the only person in Reform who knew Gill, a statement contradicted by evidence showing Gill pictured alongside Reform deputy leader Richard Tice.
Tice himself denied that he knew Gill, despite sharing a photo with him in April 2021 and saying it was “great to be with Nathan Gill, leader of Reform Wales, campaigning today”.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nigel-farage-finally-admits-to-knowing-nathan-gill-after-senior-reform-figure-repeatedly-claimed-he-didnt/It was ridiculous to claim no-one else in Reform knew him - he was in UKIP, the predecessor party to Reform, which was all about Farage, from 2004 to 2018 (its Welsh leader from 2014 to 2016), an MEP from 2014 to 2020, and in the Welsh National Assembly from 2016 to 2017. Someone that connected in UKIP 10 years ago would be well known to those who set up Reform.
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