“It’s not the public’s business,” Nigel Farage said on how he spends a £5 million gift. #BBCNews

You've said that that £5 million was for lifelong security for you.You've also said it was a gift.Can you just clarify what it was for?

No, no, no.Let's be clear.Let's be clear.It's an unconditional gift.I can spend it on cars if I want to.It's entirely up to me, right?

But there is a specific reason for this.I have been physically the most attacked and endangered politician in Britain for now well over a decade.at every stage during that time, when I've asked the state to help and support, most times they point blank refused.I know, because of the division in politics, that I will need protection until the day that I die.And that is my intention, that is what it's for, and it means, frankly, I can get on with my job and not worry about the long term.

So Mr Farage, how much of that money have you spent?

Look, literally, None of your business.If I've given it to charity, if I...But the truth is, I haven't.I know what it's done for.

You haven't spent any of it?

It's none of your business.It's literally none of your...How much of your salary do you spend on beer, on petrol?It's none of your business.

I think it is the public's business to know what...

No, it's not the public's business.

Well, it's being investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Committee, so it's somebody's business.

Let them investigate it.

You're saying you need security, a legitimate point.How much of that money have you spent on security so far?

I'm sorry.Well, no, I'm not going to answer that deliberately, willfully.Do you wish that you had declared this money at the time?It is not your business at the BBC to put me in danger, therefore I will not answer that.

I would just like to clarify, do not make any mistake, we are not putting you in any danger at all.

If I answer that question, you are, so I won't.

But you have already said that you haven't spent it.

Fine, leave it at that, then.

Do you wish you declared it at the time?

No.