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Party funding


February 2024

  • collage featuring Mohamed Amersi, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and the houses of parliament

    The long read
    ‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine

    The long read: To see how easy it is for the wealthy to buy political access and influence, consider the story of the Tory donor Mohamed Amersi
  • Vaughan Gething

    Welsh first minister hopeful accepted £200k from waste offender’s firm

    Vaughan Gething facing criticism after his campaign accepted donation from environmental offender’s company

    • Michael Gove failed to register hospitality with donor whose firm he referred for PPE contracts

    • The big idea
      The big idea: why we need to kick big money out of UK politics

    • Tory donor’s oil and gas company given North Sea licence after £150,000 fine

January 2024

  • Rishi Sunak speaking to constituents in North Yorkshire on 26 January.

    Tory donors deny funding poll for group working to oust Sunak

    Donors close to Boris Johnson and hedge fund boss behind GB News say they had no involvement in polling

December 2023

  • A placard during a pro-hunting demonstration in London in 2002

    The corrupting influence of political donations laid bare

    Letters: Brian Basham on the part he played in a controversial £1m donation to the Labour party by campaigners opposed to foxhunting
  • Rishi Sunak on a visit to a jewellery maker

    Tory donor’s firm paid for Sunak’s £16,000 one-way helicopter trip to Leeds

    Journey was paid for by The Phoenix Partnership, which has won £135m of contracts from NHS and government
  • John Sainsbury

    Conservatives raised three times as much as Labour in the most recent quarter

    Tory election fund boosted by £10m from John Sainsbury’s will as party benefits from No 10’s decision to raise spending limits

October 2023

  • Boris Johnson – then the prime minister – with JCB chairman Lord Bamford at the launch of a hydrogen-powered digger in 2021.

    Tory donors from JCB empire could face £500m bill to settle tax inquiry

  • Dale Vince sits with delegates on the first day of the Labour conference in Liverpool.

    The Labour donors: from Tory defectors to a supermarket scion

  • housebuilding

    UK housebuilders save billions as government delays low-carbon rules

  • A worker on the roof of a house under construction

    Housebuilding companies saved billions from Tory delays to low-carbon rules

September 2023

  • Anthony Bamford attends Derby Day

    Tories must explain who knew of tax investigation into donor Anthony Bamford, says Labour

  • Boris Johnson and Lord Bamford at a JCB factory

    Who is Anthony Bamford, the billionaire ‘super-donor’?

  • Lord Bamford pictured in 2016 at Epsom race course

    HMRC investigating tax affairs of one of Tory party’s largest donors

  • John Caudwell

    Major Tory donor says he will not back Sunak due to green U-turn ‘madness’

  • One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts

  • Unite launches ‘red wall’ campaign in push for radical Labour policies

  • Hotels tycoon who stopped donating to Tories gives party £10,000

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