New Delhi, July 5 -- Nigel Farage once described George Cottrell as "like a son to me." Parliament's standards committee is now asking why the Reform UK leader never fully disclosed the money that came with that relationship.

about £9,200 in travel costs to a conservative conference in Belgium.

MPs' code of conduct requires new members to declare any benefit worth more than £300 received in the 12 months before their election, if it relates in any way to their political activities. The newspaper's reporting describes benefits well beyond that threshold and well beyond the single declared item: staff Cottrell recruited and paid to work on Farage's social media operation before the general election, and ongoing use of the London...