All news on the topic: Political Donations
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Scotland Yard assesses claims Labour traded fox hunting ban for £1m donation
Scotland Yard is assessing claims that Labour banned fox hunting in return for a £1m donation from an animal rights group.
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Nigel Farage defends £5m gift as standards investigation continues
Nigel Farage has given a lengthy interview, saying he did not break any rules in not declaring a £5m ’gift’ or benefits in kind from convicted criminal George Cottrell.
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Nigel Farage reportedly sought £1m a year before receiving £5m gift from crypto billionaire
Nigel Farage told senior figures in Reform UK he would need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings if he stood for parliament in the 2024 general election, sources have told the Guardian, raising further questions about why he was given £5m by a crypto billionaire.
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Scotland Yard probes Reform UK over £500,000 donations linked to Cottrell family
Scotland Yard have been looking into potential offences relating to the "evasion of restrictions on donations" after the six-figure sum was given to Reform by Fiona Cottrell, The Times reports.
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Police launch investigation into Robert Jenrick over £37,500 donation linked to foreign funds
Police are investigating a political donation made to Robert Jenrick’s campaign to become Conservative leader. The Metropolitan Police has been examining claims that a £37,500 donation originated from a foreign donor, following a referral from the Electoral Commission.
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Nigel Farage faces new pressure after £5m gift was flagged to crime agency
The £5m gift to Nigel Farage from a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money.
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"There’s no money in politics if you’re straight": Why Nigel Farage’s own words are catching up with him
Nigel Farage’s finances and the associations surrounding his political projects have been under scrutiny for the best part of a decade.
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Nigel Farage faces fresh scrutiny over undeclared support from convicted fraudster George Cottrell
Robert Jenrick says "no rules have been broken whatsoever" by Nigel Farage, after reports the Reform UK leader failed to declare benefits provided by an ally once convicted of fraud in the US.
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Reform UK figures took Israel trip funded by foreign ministry
Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”.
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Reform UK accepted nearly £500,000 from companies facing collapse or financial distress
Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don’t have to Nigel Farage’s party.
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Nigel Farage reveals assassination threat as £5m donation row deepens
Nigel Farage is worried about a threat to his life as he claimed he would accept more donations from billionaires despite the controversy threatening to engulf him.
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Nigel Farage pockets £270,000 promoting gold as scrutiny over his finances grows
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has earned £270,000 for advertising gold bullion - the single biggest payment he has registered since becoming an MP.
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Burnham’s Makerfield landslide crushes Reform and shatters Farage’s inevitability myth
For the third time in a row Reform sought to stoke division and violence on Britain’s streets and have been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov.
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Farage’s £1.4m Surrey home revamped after £5m gift from crypto billionaire
Nigel Farage revamped his grade II-listed woodland home – after pocketing a crypto billionaire’s £5million.
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Nigel Farage owns four homes as partner buys £885,000 constituency property
He wants to make Number 10 his home, but Nigel Farage already boasts something of a property empire.
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Andy Burnham backs cap on political donations in split with Starmer government
Andy Burnham has confirmed that he supports capping political donations in the UK, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer’s Government.
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Farage plans £700,000 beachfront mansion makeover as questions mount over £5m donor gift
Nigel Farage is planning a luxury beach pad makeover costing an estimated £700,000 – after pocketing £5million from his crypto billionaire friend.
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Labour MPs push to cap political donations and tighten election rules
Labour MPs are advocating for the Government’s landmark elections bill to be strengthened with numerous amendments that could limit political donations in the UK
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Foreign money, crypto cash and billionaire donors pose existential threat to UK politics
It may not seem like it, but British politicians are cheap dates. Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform UK in Wales, worked for Russia for just £40,000
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Failed blockchain city plan sparks multimillion-dollar political vendetta in Nevada
Five years ago, a Nevada state senator helped put an end to a crypto tycoon’s vision of creating a blockchain city in the Reno desert.
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Nigel Farage buys £2m bitcoin stake as crypto ties with Reform deepen amid political scrutiny
A major cryptocurrency company has announced that Nigel Farage has made a £2m purchase of bitcoin in a strengthening of ties with the sector.
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Nigel Farage’s fundraising adviser is a convicted fraudster now writing a book titled "How to Launder Money"
George Cottrell is not widely known, but, much like Alastair Campbell to Tony Blair or Dominic Cummings to Boris Johnson, he could emerge as a key behind-the-scenes figure in Number 10 if Nigel Farage were to become Prime Minister at the next general election.
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Taiwan opposition figure Ko Wen-je jailed over $535,000 bribery in real estate dea
A court sentenced former Taipei Mayor and past presidential candidate Ko Wen-je to 17 years in prison on Thursday for bribery and corruption, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.
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