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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Labour raises £6.5mn from private donors in second quarter

      Opposition party received £10.5mn in total while Tories were gifted £10.9mn

      David Sainsbury
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Auditors flag issue with Scottish National party’s accounts

      Accountants provide a qualified audit opinion after highlighting missing documents

      People take part in a pro-independence parade in Glasgow in 2019
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Egypt-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour tops UK political donations

      Donors give £12.3mn to Conservative party in first quarter, while Labour receives £5.9mn

      Mohamed Mansour applauding during a press conference
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      Mohamed Mansour: the tycoon behind the Tories’ biggest donation in decades

      Egyptian-born billionaire lived ‘hand to mouth’ after Nasser nationalised his father’s company but now owns a sprawling conglomerate

      Mohamed Mansour during a press conference after becoming co-owner of a new Major League Soccer club in San Diego, California, in May
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      News in-depthScottish National Party
      SNP accused of ‘moving the goalposts’ over independence campaign funds

      Critics say Scotland’s ruling party needs to explain what happened to £740,000 raised to fight a second referendum

    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Conservative party dismisses Scottish Tory leader’s tactical vote call

      Party says supporters should back Tory candidates after Douglas Ross advocated doing ‘what is best for the country’

      Douglas Ross
    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour secures £2mn donation from Lord David Sainsbury

      Former chair of eponymous supermarket chain resumes funding the party after its return to the centre ground

      Lord David Sainsbury
    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Recruitment mogul emerges as major donor to UK Labour party

      New database shows Peter Hearn has donated over £1mn to the opposition party over the past decade

      Recipients: Wes Streeting, Yvette Cooper and Dan Jarvis
    • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
      Labour calls on Johnson to sack Elliot as Conservative co-chair

      PM accused of allowing businessman to blur lines between private activities and public responsibilities

      Ben Elliot, Conservative party co-chair
    • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
      Tory chair failed to disclose client ties with Middle East envoys

      More concerns that Ben Elliot is blurring line between commercial and political activities

    • Friday, 6 August, 2021
      Tory donors use PR firm part-owned by chief fundraiser Ben Elliot

      FT reveals three major party donors that have hired company co-founded by Conservative co-chair

    • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
      Tory chair accused of mixing business and political interests

      Former MP says Ben Elliot did not reveal party donor was client of his concierge service

      Montage of Tory party co-chair Ben Elliot and former Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie
    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      Tories defend fundraising amid controversy over secret donors’ club

      Conservative party hits back at Labour calls to publish details of exclusive ‘Advisory Board’

      Conservative party co-chair Amanda Milling
    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      New claims raise questions over Tory donor’s Russian business links

      Mohamed Amersi disputes claims $4m payment came from company owned by Putin’s then telecoms minister

      Nadejda Roditcheva and Mohamed Amersi
    • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
      Labour urges Tories to reveal members of secretive donor club

      Conservative party insists government policy is not influenced by ‘Advisory Board’

      Montage of Ben Elliot and Prime Minister Boris Johnson
    • Friday, 30 July, 2021
      Elite Tory donors club holds secret meetings with Johnson and Sunak

      Conservative ‘Advisory Board’ is part of co-chair Ben Elliot’s mission to modernise governing party’s fundraising efforts

      Conservative co-chair Ben Elliot, left, and prime minister Boris Johnson
    • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
      Property donors provide one-quarter of funds given to Tory party

      UK governing party has received nearly £18m from donors with property interests in the past two years

    • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
      Scottish National Party
      Police announce probe of Scottish National party finances

      Complaints allege that money raised for independence referendum campaign was spent on other things

      SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon giving a speech to party members in September 2016
    • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
      The Big Read
      The donor, the Russian deals and the Conservative money machine

      Mohamed Amersi, a major donor, is involved in a legal fight over a proposal that would extend his influence within the UK’s ruling party

    • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
      City boss gave Tories £500,000 days after joining House of Lords

      Timing of donation by Peter Cruddas draws fresh accusations of ‘sleaze’ from Labour

    • Saturday, 1 August, 2020
      Latest Lords appointment raises questions over party donors

      FT analysis reveals that 22 peers appointed to upper chamber have donated to UK’s three main political parties

    • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
      Conservatives hit election record of £37.4m in big donations

      Boris Johnson’s party received three times more than Labour in run-up to last year’s vote

      Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, stands by as CEO Alan Ferguson, talks during a question and answer session, part of a General Election campaign visit to Ferguson's Transport in Washington, England, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)
    • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
      Conservatives attract 7 times more in big donations than Labour

      Hargreaves Lansdown founder and GMB union top week’s donors to parties’ election efforts

      Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds up a banner with the words 'Get Brexit Done' during a visit to the John Smedley Mill, while election campaigning in Matlock, Derbyshire. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday December 5, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
    • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
      UK general election
      Tories rake in near £6m in big donations in first week of campaign

      Largest donation this month came from theatre producer John Gore, who gave £1m

      UK prime minister Boris Johnson. The four main political parties to report political donations raised a total of £6.5m
    • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
      Labour Party UK
      Labour party loses 45,000 members in 2018

      Opposition party still bigger than other main parties combined

      File photo dated 06/05/16 of a Labour rosette worn, as the party has lost nearly 26,000 members since last summer, according to leaked data. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday March 3, 2017. The apparent shedding of card-carrying supporters has led one former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) to warn the "tide is turning". See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire
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