Nigel Farage's failed bid to reach the Chagos Islands was funded by a Reform mega-donor who footed the bill for his £12,500 seat on his private jet. Thai-based crypto-currency billionaire Christopher Harborne gifted the Brexit MP a seat on a plane that took Farage across the globe to the Maldives last month. Farage - nicknamed "Nine Jobs Nigel" for his lucrative side-hustles outside of his job as a £93,000-a-year MP - claimed he flew to the Maldives with supplies as a "humanitarian aid mission".