{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a6b0e4d2a5f0f30724fb25a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Posh George: The criminal behind Farage ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/cover/1785400893241-76410078-1a5c-4673-bdd4-44f40dd8f64f.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>How Nigel Farage came to rely on a convicted fraudster.</p><p><br></p><p>It&#39;s July 2016 and 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.</p><p><br></p><p>A decade later ‘Posh George&#39; is still the Reform leader&#39;s right-hand man. </p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>Both George Cottrell and Nigel Farage deny any wrongdoing.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Host:</strong> Gabriel Pogrund, editor of Insight at The Sunday Times.</p>","author_name":"The Sunday Times"}