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Dig deep! Reform frontbench promotes JCBs after £200,000 donation from firm

2 May 2026 at 16:00

Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro

Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted a new pothole-fixing machine by the construction company JCB, while the party received £200,000 from the British digger maker, the Guardian can reveal.

Several Reform politicians including Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro machine.

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© Photograph: Guy Bell/Alamy

© Photograph: Guy Bell/Alamy

The Tories: How to bring down the oldest political party on the planet

2 May 2026 at 04:00

Perhaps not many Europeans have ever envied Britain’s weather, but admiration for its institutions has been unwavering. The explanation is simple: over the past two centuries, Germany has lived under a monarchy, a republic, the Reich, a partition into two opposing regimes, and a federal model. France and Spain have been no less turbulent, and Italy, for a long stretch, did not even exist.

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Nigel Farage, leader of Reform, poses with party candidates in Chigwell, on April 10.
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