Party’s economic spokesperson says donations are a ‘breakthrough moment’ as Labour’s Angela Rayner warns of possible retrospective action
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
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Analysis: Donations of £72m make Reform’s prospects both rosier and riskier
Just wanted to highlight this statement too from Jenrick, insisting to both the BBC and Sky this morning that wealthy donors wouldn’t get formal favours, if Reform were to come into power.
He said “there are all these people in the House of Lords who are Tory donors. 24 out of the last 25 Tory Party treasurers sit in the House of Lords.”
“Reform is different. We are not going to give peerages, or knighthoods, to people who go around giving us donations,” he says.
A reminder that Jenrick was a Tory MP for 12 years (and the former shadow justice secretary) before defecting to Reform in January of this year.
More from Jenrick on the BBC asserting that the donations from the crypto billionaires are legal.
As I sketched out earlier, the Labour government has a package of laws going through parliament right now aimed at stopping foreign money from influencing UK elections.
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