Labour dropped plan to ban foreign donors after Waheed Alli intervened, book claims

A Labour source told the authors that Lord Alli had intervened to pull the announcement with a week to go, with no explanation. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Labour reportedly dropped a plan to ban foreign political donations after an intervention from Waheed Alli, the Labour peer who paid for Keir Starmer’s clothes and glasses.

The plan would have scuppered any potential donations from the billionaire Elon Musk to Reform UK. It would have made it illegal to donate unless donors were registered to vote in the UK or via companies owned by people based in Britain.