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Del Woppio said:
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The Tories received £2.9m in private donations in the second quarter of the year, down from £3.4m in the first three months of 2025.

A third of the Conservatives’ total came in the form of a £1m donation from video game entrepreneur Jez San, following an earlier £1m gift to the party in February.

The party also received £250,000 from its current treasurer, Graham Edwards, and another £200,000 from businessman Kamal Pankhania, half personally and half through one of his companies, Westcombe Homes.

Despite the fall in donations, the Conservatives still out-raised Labour, which received £2.6m in donations, slightly more than the £2.4m it declared between January and March.

More than half of that figure came from trade unions, including £746,000 from Unite, which has threatened to “re-examine” its relationship with Labour over the government’s handling of a long-running strike by refuse workers in Birmingham.

Other donations included £442,000 from the GMB union, £246,000 from Usdaw and £106,000 from the Communication Workers Union.

Labour’s largest private donation during the period came in the form of £80,000 from property company Activepine, owned by Birmingham-based businessman Maqbool Ahmed.

Donations to the Liberal Democrats fell by around half, to just £773,597, while despite Reform UK’s consistent lead in the polls, donations to Nigel Farage’s party remained relatively steady at £1.4m.

Reform’s donations, slightly down from the £1.5m in the previous three months, included £300,000 from the party’s treasurer, Nick Candy, and £200,000 from Lebanese-born businessman Bassim Haidar, who claimed last year he planned to leave the UK over plans to scrap the non-dom tax status.

Farage’s party also accepted £100,000 from Greybull Capital, the company which bought a struggling British Steel in 2019 before selling it to Chinese company Jingye later that year.

The Conservatives said Reform had “once again fallen short”, claiming donors were “clearly expressing continued hesitancy about their ongoing internal mess and billions in unfunded spending commitments”.

Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said the figures “underline the continued strength of support behind the Conservative party”, adding: “We are building momentum quarter after quarter, and it is clear that people recognise and believe in Kemi’s mission of Conservative renewal.”

Parties must declare all donations of more than £11,180, as well as smaller donations that add up to more than this figure.
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It's all thinly veiled bribery in my very humble opinion
 
Announced to a nationwide shrug of indifference Nadine Dorries has joined reform
 
I’m with Billy Connelly, make the national anthem the theme tune from the archers, keep the la la la la la La la in makes it dead easy for immigrants to learn and integrates them quicker
 
I lied, so what…….

But on the final day of Reform’s conference in Birmingham, he admitted he was wrong to say he had “exchanged contracts” on the Clacton house.

He told Sky News: “I should have said ‘we’.” Pushed again that he doesn’t actually own a house in Clacton, Farage added: “I should, I should have said ‘we’. All right? My partner bought it, so what?”

He continued: “All right. I shouldn’t have said ‘we’. I should have said ‘we’. It’s her money. It’s her asset. I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.”

Farage added: “You know what? It’s a really funny thing in life. But sometimes we all say things that we perhaps shouldn’t quite have said.
 
Went past a hotel in Oldbury yesterday afternoon which had a load of flag waving knuckle draggers outside it. About 80 of them, plus a police presence.
Can't abide watching this rise if the far right :(
 
Sniffer said:
I lied, so what…….

But on the final day of Reform’s conference in Birmingham, he admitted he was wrong to say he had “exchanged contracts” on the Clacton house.

He told Sky News: “I should have said ‘we’.” Pushed again that he doesn’t actually own a house in Clacton, Farage added: “I should, I should have said ‘we’. All right? My partner bought it, so what?”

He continued: “All right. I shouldn’t have said ‘we’. I should have said ‘we’. It’s her money. It’s her asset. I own none of it. But I just happen to spend some time there.”

Farage added: “You know what? It’s a really funny thing in life. But sometimes we all say things that we perhaps shouldn’t quite have said.
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He's such a cunt...
 
lemonjelly said:
Went past a hotel in Oldbury yesterday afternoon which had a load of flag waving knuckle draggers outside it. About 80 of them, plus a police presence.
Can't abide watching this rise if the far right :(
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Meanwhile tens of busloads of peaceful pensioners including the disabled are arrested for holding posters.
 
lemonjelly said:
Went past a hotel in Oldbury yesterday afternoon which had a load of flag waving knuckle draggers outside it. About 80 of them, plus a police presence.
Can't abide watching this rise if the far right :(
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My wife said there was a protest outside a hotel around here today when she went to Tesco earlier. Awful to see.
 
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