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Party funding


August 2024

  • Ian Corfield

    Labour donor quits Treasury role amid ‘cronyism’ claims

  • Polly Toynbee

    How can Labour avoid the ‘union paymasters’ jibes? By banning all large donations

    Polly Toynbee

July 2024

  • Composite image of Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly, Mel Stride and Robert Jenrick.

    Conservative leadership race spending cap raised to £400,000

    Exclusive: Higher limit reflects longer race, while cash-strapped party seeks £50,000 from candidates to cover costs
  • Rishi Sunak waves as he stands next to his wife with people around

    Tory conference could be like a wake as business stays away

    Attendance in Birmingham predicted to be worst in living memory with big impact on party’s fundraising efforts
  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the London Stock Exchange

    ‘When power shifts, so does the money’: mega-donors fill Labour’s coffers

    Large financial backers are returning to the party after abandoning it during the Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn eras

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaking into a microphone while standing next to Rachel Reeves

    Cosy ties and £400,000 in political donations: why Labour has a gambling problem

  • Frank Hester

    Companies linked to Tory donors given £8.4bn in public contracts since 2016

  • Rishi Sunak sitting in a crowd of people

    Labour raised £4.4m to Tories’ £290,000 in second week of campaign

  • Frank Hester

    Rishi Sunak says Tories will not give Frank Hester his money back

  • Love Actually producer puts Labour donations on top in first campaign week

  • Reform UK raises £1.5m after Nigel Farage’s return as leader

  • Labour urges Tories not to hand out leaflets it says Frank Hester has paid for

  • Who are the wealthy climate sceptics funding rightwing UK politics?

  • New Frank Hester race claims pile pressure on Tories over £15m donations

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: IFS attacks Tory pledge not to reform ‘absurd’ council tax system – as it happened

  • Who are the big Conservative and Labour donors?

  • Frank Hester donated further £5m to Tories in January, figures show

  • Political spending and donations: what are the rules in the UK?

May 2024

  • Penny Mordaunt

    Tory donors pour cash into seats held by big names at risk of losing

  • First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething sitting in office, with large desk and Welsh flag in the background

    Labour urged to return donation given to Vaughan Gething’s campaign

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