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

Labour boosts election war chest with record quarter for funding

Keir Starmer looking into the distance.
‘Thanks to Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Labour party saw significant financial growth throughout 2022,’ the party says. Photograph: James Manning/PA

Labour had a record quarter for funding, receiving more than £10.4m, showing the party is outgunning the Conservatives financially in the run-up to the next election.

The party’s coffers were boosted by a £3m donation from David Sainsbury, the supermarket baron, as well as £2.2m from Gary Lubner, who made hundreds of millions of pounds running the company behind Autoglass.

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