How much have political donors gifted to their party coffers? Well, the results are now in. Today’s Electoral Commission figures bring some long overdue good news for Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives, who have come out on top: the Tories received a whopping £3.3 million of donations between the 1 January and 31 March 2025. In fact, Badenoch’s boys in blue took £1 million more than the Labour lot who received £2.3 million, and over double the £1.48 million of donations Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took. Talk about raking it in, eh?
And the Tories have more than just the raw figures to boast about: it transpires that onetime Labour supporter and video game entrepreneur Jez San donated a staggering sum of £1 million this quarter. More than that, Carphone Warehouse founder, the philanthropist David Ross, has resumed his donations to the party for the first time in three years – and he will become, the party has announced today, the group’s senior treasurer in the autumn.
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