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Party funding


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

  • Labour boosts election war chest with record quarter for funding

August 2023

  • Rishi Sunak arriving at the Fairmont Windsor Park hotel in February

    Tory donor issued with demolition order for hotel where Brexit deal signed

    Surinder Arora told to demolish all or part of Fairmont Windsor Park hotel where Northern Ireland deal was agreed
  • Composite image of head and shoulder photos of Keir Starmer and Ed Davey

    Income of Labour and Lib Dems up as Tory funds fall, accounts show

    Newly released figures seem to show ebbing financial support for Conservatives
  • Catherine Bennett

    Polluters, tax avoiders, misfits: forget Labour’s pals, Tory donors are in a different class

    Catherine Bennett
    Claiming the moral high ground over taking cash from an eco-zealot seems just a little hypocritical

July 2023

  • The Elizabeth Tower of the Houses of Parliament, commonly known as Big Ben.

    Party funding reform will happen only if we, the public, demand it

    Letter: We can’t allow decisions to be made solely by those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, writes Clive Needle
  • Rishi Sunak

    Rishi Sunak changes declaration again over private jet travel expenses

    Questions continue to be raised about £38,500 for travel to Tory events, now declared to be from millionaire Akhil Tripathi
    • Starmer put ‘on notice’ by Unite leader after vote to retain ties with Labour

    • British political giving is increasingly dominated by the rich – it’s a system ripe for abuse

      Peter Geoghegan
    • Sunak faces transparency questions over jet travel and Tory donations

June 2023

  • Mohamed Mansour

    Labour urges Tories to hand back £5m donation from Mohamed Mansour

    Anneliese Dodds questions why it took so long for one of the Conservative senior treasurer’s firms to sever its Russia links
  • President Biden meets UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the White House.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Biden and Sunak hold press conference as new transatlantic deal unveiled – as it happened

    US president and UK prime minister announce plan to bolster economic security in response to China’s growing influence
  • Lubov Chernukhin

    £150,000 levelling up grant awarded to Tory donor’s amusement centre in Hastings

    Owens centre, co-founded by Lubov Chernukhin, raises questions about whether public money has gone to projects most in need of it

May 2023

  • Just Stop Oil protesters block traffic around Parliament Square

    Labour backer to match donations to Just Stop Oil after Tory criticism

    Dale Vince pledges to match amount given by public over next 48 hours after Tories target his Labour links
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