A baby-faced British aristocrat called George Cottrell faces arrest in the US, just weeks after he and his boss, Nigel Farage, reach the summit of their careers to date - the Brexit vote.

A decade later ‘Posh George' is still the Reform leader's right-hand man.

This groundbreaking series from The Sunday Times’s Insight team investigates how the politician who could hold the keys to Number 10 came to depend upon a crypto enthusiast, gambler and fraudster.

Both George Cottrell and Nigel Farage deny any wrongdoing.

Host: Gabriel Pogrund, editor of Insight at The Sunday Times.

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Who is George Swinfen Cottrell, aka Posh George? Booted out of his expensive boarding school after gambling in 2010, he comes of age in London’s Mayfair district, learning the tricks of his trade in international finance, private banking, and offshore structures.

George is soon drawn into the orbit of UKIP leader, Nigel Farage.

Both George Cottrell and Nigel Farage deny any wrongdoing.

Host: Gabriel Pogrund, editor of Insight at The Sunday Times

Read more: Revealed - Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal by Gabriel Pogrund, Venetia Menzies, Emanuele Midolo & George Greenwood

Watch: Everything you need to know about the aristocrat funding Nigel Farage

Get in touch:

Call or WhatsApp The Sunday Times’s Insight team: 020 7782 5959

For any tips on this series: insight@sunday-times.co.uk

If you have a story for us: investigates.podcasts@thetimes.com

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It’s July 2016 and Nigel Farage is riding high on a Brexit wave when his young aide, Posh George is arrested following a sting by US federal agents.

He’s accused of running a money laundering scheme over the dark web. Can the young financier escape a jail term and rebuild his gilded life?

Both George Cottrell and Nigel Farage deny any wrongdoing.

Host: Gabriel Pogrund, editor of Insight at The Sunday Times

Read more: Revealed - Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal by Gabriel Pogrund, Venetia Menzies, Emanuele Midolo & George Greenwood

Nigel Farage’s crypto-gambler ally used Reform UK business cards by Gabriel Pogrund, Venetia Menzies, Emanuele Midolo & George Greenwood

Watch: Everything you need to know about the aristocrat funding Nigel Farage

Get in touch:

Call or WhatsApp The Sunday Times’s Insight team: 020 7782 5959

For any tips on this series: insight@sunday-times.co.uk

If you have a story for us: investigates.podcasts@thetimes.com

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