REFORM party boss Nigel Farage has admitted to 17 breaches of parliamentary rules on declaring outside earnings.

He held his hands up to more than £380,000 in late declarations, pleading that the scale of his grifting had overwhelmed the capacity of his staff to keep up.

The revelations came as Mr Farage was, appropriately enough, in Davos rubbing shoulders with the billionaire class rather than attending Commons questions, as most party leaders do every week. 

Most of his extra-curricular earnings appear to come from right-wing TV channel GB News, where he hosts a show, and from a side hustle promoting gold bullion.

A Labour Party spokesman said that Mr Farage “is so distracted with tempting failed Tory politicians into his party that he can’t even get the basics right. 

“He isn’t on the side of working people — he’s just lining his pockets when he should be standing up for his constituents.  

“He boasts about making money ‘because I’m Nigel Farage,’ raking in millions through various outside jobs. But he neglects to do the important work that hard-pressed taxpayers fork out for him to do. 

“Labour will tighten the rules on MPs’ second jobs to make sure the public get the attention they expect and deserve from their elected representatives.”

But it seems that Mr Farage’s explanation has been accepted by the authorities, and he will face no sanction for his breaches.

Liberal Democrats deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “Five Jobs Farage is spending far too much time jetting off to talk our country down in the US and cashing in from his GB News show.

“Just like his idol Donald Trump, Farage thinks politics is all about lining his own pockets not serving the people. We can’t let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.”