Robert Jenrick faces questions after Reform nets £72m in donations in just 24 hours - UK politics live
8m ago04.07 EDTJenrick faces questions over record Reform donationsGood morning and welcome to the Guardian’s politics live blog in what is a fairly tumultuous period in electoral financing. To recap: In the past 48 hours, Reform UK has received a staggering sum of £72m from two crypto billionaires, the largest single donations in British political history. But it has also further muddied the reputation around the party’s finances and who it says it serves.
- ▪8m ago04.07 EDTJenrick faces questions over record Reform donationsGood morning and welcome to the Guardian’s politics live blog in what is a fairly tumultuous period in electoral financing.
- ▪To recap: In the past 48 hours, Reform UK has received a staggering sum of £72m from two crypto billionaires, the largest single donations in British political history.
- ▪But it has also further muddied the reputation around the party’s finances and who it says it serves.
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8m ago04.07 EDTJenrick faces questions over record Reform donationsGood morning and welcome to the Guardian’s politics live blog in what is a fairly tumultuous period in electoral financing. To recap: In the past 48 hours, Reform UK has received a staggering sum of £72m from two crypto billionaires, the largest single donations in British political history. Christopher Harborne’s £36m donation, which he announced in the Telegraph newspaper yesterday, matches that given by another cryptocurrency investor Ben Delo on Friday.Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben DeloRead moreThe huge injection into Reform’s coffers obviously help fund the anti-immigration party’s operations leading into the next general election, to be held by 2029.
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