Nigel Farage’s partner refuses to say how she paid for £885,000 house in Clacton
Laure Ferrari dodged the question when quizzed by a journalist
Nigel Farage’s girlfriend Laure Ferrari has refused to confirm how she paid for a £885,000 house in the Reform leader’s constituency.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, Ferrari was asked how she paid for the house, but dodged the question.
A Guardian investigation found that the house, which Farage initially said he had bought, was purchased without a mortgage in Ferrari’s name.
This would have saved Farage around £44,000 in stamp duty as he already owns other homes.
The Reform leader denies giving his girlfriend any money to help purchase the house.
Asked specifically by Le Monde if she paid for it with a family inheritance, Ferrari gave an evasive answer: “Yes and no, that would be a very large inheritance… There’s more than one way to pay for a house.”
She hinted at some of the money having come from her grandmother, but added: “I can’t say how much my grandmother gave, that’s my business.”
She continued: “The main thing is that I paid all the taxes, there was no tax evasion, and the house is in my name.”
Some months after the Guardian published its investigation last May, Farage suggested that she was able to buy the four-bedroom home with a pool in Frinton-on-Sea because she has “a very wealthy French family and can afford it”.
A BBC investigation indicated that the size of her family’s alleged wealth would not be large enough to buy an £885,000 house outright.
The BBC found that her father ran a haulage business in Strasbourg, France for many years but the company was liquidated in 2020 and had more liabilities than assets at the time.
Meanwhile, her parents, Bertrand and Chantal, live in a flat worth around 350,000 euros (£302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb, which they co-own with their two daughters.
The investigation also found that they rent out the haulage company’s former business premises, but that this would only generate around no more than 8-9,000 euros a month.
It still remains unclear how Farage’s Clacton house was paid for.
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
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