Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty ImagesProminent Reform member Arron Banks hired private investigators to look into Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances, the New Statesman can reveal. He co-founded the Leave.EU pro-Brexit campaign and, in May 2025, he stood unsuccessfully as the Reform candidate in the West of England mayoral election. Banks did not deny he had launched the probe. “We believe the Sunday Times used hacked information and that was an area of interest. Subscribe to our newsletters View all newsletters The best of the New Statesman’s politics and culture writing, in your inbox.