Reform UK opened an internal inquiry after policy head James Orr and senior Nigel Farage aide Dan Jukes stepped down over Channel 4 undercover allegations that they arranged undisclosed polling finance and discussed routing a prohibited foreign donation through a permissible donor. The broadcaster said a journalist posing as the son of a wealthy American paid £32,500 for polls and that a separate proposed £500,000 contribution was never made. Farage denied that Reform broke any law or accepted questionable money, while Orr and Jukes denied wrongdoing. The Metropolitan Police is assessing information supplied after Labour and the Liberal Democrats sought an investigation. The affair, alongside an ongoing parliamentary investigation into a 2024 donation from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, overshadowed Reform's conference, where Farage and Jordan Bardella, President of France's National Rally, signed a Channel boat-return agreement contingent on both parties taking power.