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Laure Ferrari’s company, Baxter Laois Limited, showed £11,006 in net liabilities on 31 October 2024.
Eleven days later, she bought an ÂŁ885,000 house in cash.
Here’s the full picture. 🧵
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Baxter Laois Ltd (Companies House 09805308).
Sole director and shareholder: Laure Ferrari.
Started life in 2015 as LF Consultancy Services Ltd, renamed 2022.
It handles management consultancy and wholesale of alcohol — the vehicle for Farage Gin.
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The balance sheet trend is clear:
Oct 2021: ÂŁ10,800 net assets
Oct 2022: ÂŁ10,528
Oct 2023: -ÂŁ6,789
Oct 2024: -ÂŁ11,006
One employee: herself. Micro-entity rules meant no need to file turnover, salary or dividends.
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Every registered office tells its own story:
Serviced London address,
Then 1 Darwin Villas, Westerham, listed as Farage's own correspondence address on Companies House.
Then 57a Broadway, Leigh-on-Sea — shared with Farage Media Ltd and his old company
January 2026: moved to an accountant’s office in Clacton-on-Sea, his constituency.
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On 11 November 2024, Ferrari bought Orchard House, Turpins Lane, Kirby Cross, Frinton-on-Sea (Title EX38068).
ÂŁ885,000. Cash. No mortgage. Sole owner.
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Explanations so far:
Farage first said he bought it, then admitted he “misspoke”
“Very successful French family” (BBC found her father’s haulage firm liquidated in 2020 with more debts than assets; parents in a modest ~£300k flat).
To Le Monde (5 May 2026): “Yes and no… that would be a very large inheritance from my grandmother… There’s more than one way to pay for a house.”
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Director of a company in negative equity.
Cash purchase of a big Essex house days after the accounts date.
Family wealth claims that don’t fully add up on public record.
Three stories. Still no clear answer.
Who paid for the house?