The Conservatives have reclaimed the top spot in the Electoral Commission’s latest party donor league tables, raking in £12,277,478 in the first quarter of 2023. This marks a stonking increase on their total of £4.7 million from Q4 of 2022. Labour, meanwhile, received £5,893,841. The Tories more than doubled this…
The Conservatives donor boon comes courtesy of Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour, who donated £5 million to help “very capable Prime Minister” Rishi win a full term. Graham Edwards and Amit Lohia also each gave £2 million. The figures will come as welcome relief to cost-cutting CCHQ, as the party took out a £2,000,000 line of credit in December. Labour’s figures won’t be so reassuring for the party and their prawn cocktail offensive. 62% of their donations came from trade unions and public funds…
This morning the Electoral Commission published its party donations and loans data for January to March 2022, and it’s good news for Sir Keir: Labour raised more cash last quarter than the Tories. Labour accepted a total of £5,229,989, while the Conservatives managed £4,608,213. In the last quarter of 2021, the Tories came out on top with £4,958,350, with Labour trailing at £3,837,167. A decent turnaround for a party that had to pass mass redundancies and offer real-terms pay cuts a few months ago. So much for Unite’s threats to bankrupt them…
Meanwhile the LibDems raised £1,368,419, the SNP raised £364,606, and the Greens took in £166,046. Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, which currently has no representation at any level of government, actually raised more cash than the Greens, with £300,000. Kerching.
If there were ever a sign of the LibDems’ increasing irrelevance, figures released by the electoral commission today revealed Laurence Fox single-handedly raised almost as much as the entire LibDems in the first quarter one of 2021. Total returns revealed Fox’s Reclaim party brought in £1.53 million, versus the LibDems’ £1.28 million. Fox’s incoming was exclusively from 18 individual donations by Jeremy Hosking…
Unsurprisingly, even Nick Clegg couldn’t turn the LibDems’ fundraising efforts around. The former deputy prime minister resumed donating to his former party, for the first time since the 2019 general election. Electoral Commission records show their former leader gave £5,000 to his old branch in Sheffield, and £10,000 to the Scottish LibDem branch. Guido would have thought his Facebook wage would allow him to be more generous…
New figures just released by the Electoral Commission show donations to political parties from April – June have hit a half-decade low thanks to the global pandemic and lockdown. The real reason Rishi wants to get the economy moving again…
440 party donations were made – 545 fewer than the same period in 2019 – totalling £9.263 million. That’s over £10 million lower than the same period in 2019…
Labour notably dominate the table, raking in over £1 million more than the Tories and taking up eight of the top 10 largest donations. Parties will need donations to remain high as we enter the race for next year’s bumper mid-term regional, local, and devolved elections…
Political party donation figures for the last quarter of 2016 are out:
Conservative and Unionist Party – £3,610,983
Liberal Democrats – £1,972,904
Labour Party – £1,970,055
Green Party – £46,228
Co-operative Party – 39,750
UK Independence Party (UKIP) – £33,228
Women’s Equality Party – £30,000
The Lib Dems have had a fantastic quarter, narrowly beating Labour to take their place as the second best-funded party over the period. UKIP are struggling – they took just three grand more than the Women’s Equality Party. The LibDems are cashing in on being anti-Brexit, they just got a million quid donation from Greg Nasmyth. Guido hears they have secured another major donation from a Blairite former Labour donor which we can expect to see in the next Electoral Commission figures…
Shameless Nick Clegg has trousered a massive £30,000 payment from an official ‘friend of Putin’ whose company is based in an offshore tax haven. Clegg received the bung from Frederik Paulsen, the billionaire chairman of drugs firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals. As you can see above, Paulsen was personally awarded an “Order of Friendship” medal by Putin himself. The Vlad acolyte has poured huge amounts of cash into Russia, has been given a gong by the Russian Foreign ministry, and is an honorary Russian citizen. Not only that, his company is ultimately controlled from Curacao, a Caribbean tax haven…
Clegg has of course accused the Leave campaign of siding with Putin. Top level hypocrisy – at the same time he is happy to line his pockets with a huge wedge from one of Putin’s mates…
