Reform UK’s economic spokesperson talks to Sky News and BBC after record donations
By Frances Mao
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
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Analysis: Donations of £72m make Reform’s prospects both rosier and riskier
Good 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 yesterday, matches that given by another cryptocurrency investor Ben Delo on Friday.
The huge injection into Reform’s coffers will help fund the anti-immigration party’s operations leading into the next general election, to be held by 2029. But it has also further muddied the reputation around the party’s finances and who it says it serves.
Reform has pledged more crypto-friendly policies — i.e. greater adoption of the unregulated currency across the UK — if the party were to come into power.
Source: theguardian.com
