Farage's regular Telegraph column is coming to an end

Nigel Farage will no longer write a regular column for the Telegraph newspaper, the Guardian reported on Monday 2 November. Farage, the MP for Clacton and leader of the Reform UK party, wrote for the paper on a retainer, which is a set fee for ongoing work, with no fixed number of columns per week or month. The contract paid about £4,000 a month.

The Telegraph is now owned by the German publisher Axel Springer. Sources told the Guardian that Axel Springer decided not to renew Farage's contract. Sources close to Farage said he submitted his resignation to the paper on the Friday before the report, because he did not like the direction the paper was moving in.

Farage had written for the Telegraph as recently as the week before, when he condemned the first budget of Andy Burnham's premiership. A budget is the government's plan for taxes and spending.

The paper is also facing change on a wider scale. Axel Springer has set out plans for mass redundancies across the Telegraph business, including the newsroom, which means job cuts on a large scale. Allison Pearson was understood to be in negotiations about leaving the Telegraph in the same week.

Isabel Oakeshott, a former Sunday Times political editor, writes columns for the Telegraph. She is the partner of Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK.