Labor raised almost £4.4 million in the second full week of the general election campaign – close to 15 times the amount raised by the Conservatives.
Rishi Sunak’s party raised just under £300,000 between June 6 and 12.
UK Reform it raised more than double this amount, with £742,000 raised.
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However, £500,000 of this money was handed over by Britain Means Business, a company run by Reform deputy leader Richard Tice.
O Liberal Democrats it also received more than the Conservatives, raising £335,000.
The Green Party raised £20,000.
Work raised £4,383,400 – and its partner, the Co-operative Party, raised £60,000.
O Conservatives raised £292,500, according to Electoral Commission figures.
The conservative figure also represents about half of what they raised in first full week of the campaign.
Between May 30 and June 5, the Conservatives raised £574,918, compared to Labour’s £926,908.
However, looking at the 2019 election, the Conservative Party increased ten times this amount in the first week of the campaign.
They absorbed £5.7 million between 6th and 12th November 2019.
Labor raised £218,500 this time.
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Delving into the Electoral Commission’s analysis, we can see a little more about who gave the most money to different parties.
As mentioned, Reforma’s biggest donor is a company run by its deputy leader.
A man called David Lilley also gave the party £100,000, and another notable contributor was Holy Vukadinovic – the maiden name of model Holly Valance – who donated £50,000.
For the Labor Party, the biggest donor was Lord Sainsbury, who donated £2.5 million, followed by Autoglass boss Gary Lubner, who donated £900,000.
Its biggest union donation came from machinist corps Aslef, which donated £100,000.
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For the Liberal Democrats, they received £150,000 from Adam Management Holdings, and another £100,000 from the late John Faulkner, a former party member who left money to the party.
The Conservatives recorded a £50,000 donation from “The Spring Lunch” – which is the name of one of their fundraising events – as well as £50,000 from Bestway Wholesale, a company which has a fellow Conservative appointed as a director.
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