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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Crypto investor based in Thailand donates further £3m to Reform

Christopher Harborne.
Christopher Harborne, who also has interests in defence and aviation, gave £9m to Reform last summer. Photograph: George Cracknell Wright/LNP

Christopher Harborne has donated another £3m to Reform UK on top of his record £9m last summer.

Nigel Farage’s party, which has been topping the polls for more than a year, brought in £5.5m in the last quarter of 2025 – outstripping all the other parties. It also included a £200,000 donation from JC Bamford Excavators – traditionally a Conservative donor – which gave the same sum to the Tories that quarter.

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