Watch: 'I firmly believe I have broken no rules,' Farage tells BBC
Nigel Farage has said the UK is a "complainants' society", as he faces ongoing questions about both his and his party's finances.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of the party's annual conference this week, the Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
It comes after a summer dominated by headlines about the party's finances and £5m he received from a party supporter before the last election.
Farage acknowledged his party's poll ratings had taken a hit compared to last year, but said it would rebound and still had "every chance" of winning the next general election.
Reform's annual conference begins in Birmingham on Thursday, with both Farage and the party facing renewed questions over money.
A parliamentary investigation into £5m he received from major Reform donor Christopher Harborne was relaunched following Farage's re-election in Clacton, after a by-election he called in the Essex seat.
The Metropolitan Police is also investigating whether payments to Reform in the weeks before the last election complied with donation laws.
The police probe is examining donations given directly to the party by Fiona Cottrell, mother of longstanding Farage ally George Cottrell.
It is also examining payments from a company controlled by Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice, which received £1m from Fiona Cottrell in June 2024.
Asked if he knew whether or not money donated by Fiona Cottrell had come from her son George, Farage said he was not "involved in the transactions".
However, he added that he "had been told it's her money". Reform has insisted it has always complied with donations rules.
He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
