Europe / United Kingdom · Politics

Reform UK internal inquiry clears party over donations sting

Rank
Running: 16h
Updated: 14h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 4
Regions: 1
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Sky News United Kingdom · English 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

The only language so far · English, 4 reports

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Sky News, 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC.
Second region: International, with Politico Europe.
Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

75%25%

Europe 3 outlets · 1 country · 75%
International 1 outlet · 25%

First movers

Sky News 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC
BBC News +29m
Politico Europe +1h 53m
The Guardian +1h 55m

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 2 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 1: United Kingdom. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article Sky News, 7 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 10:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 12:26 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.26, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

7 Oct 2026 389 2.86 4 2 4 2 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 10:40 UTC · Updated 12:26 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Europe 3 outlets

The Guardian United Kingdom 7 Oct, 12:26 UTC
Reform clears its own officials of breaking party funding laws despite police investigation
BBC News United Kingdom 7 Oct, 11:01 UTC
Reform internal inquiry says party did not break law over donations sting
Sky News United Kingdom 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC
Reform UK inquiry clears own advisers over donations sting
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- Reform UK inquiry clears own advisors over donations sting 7 Oct, 10:32 UTC

International 1 outlet

Politico Europe International 7 Oct, 12:25 UTC
Reform probe clears Farage aides caught in donations sting