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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Juliette Garside

Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

Ben Delo sitting in a chair in front of a blackboard
It has not been previously reported that Delo gave funding to Power before the case went to court. Photograph: The Ben Delo Foundation

Reform UK’s new mega-donor Ben Delo gave a £350,000 loan to a conservative writer fighting a legal case in which a judge later found she had engaged in online bullying and regrettable conduct with a “whiff of threat and antisemitism”.

Nina Power and her friend, the writer Daniel DC Miller, brought the legal action for defamation against the performance artist Luke Turner, who they had accused of falsely calling them antisemitic. At the same time, Turner brought a counter-claim against the pair accusing them of harassment.

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