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

Senior Reform official cast doubt over legality of huge donations

James Orr
James Orr was suspended as Reform’s head of policy last month after other comments he made about political donation laws came to light. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

A senior Reform UK official raised questions about whether major donations from billionaire backers Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo would be legal under the proposed new foreign donors cap three months before they gave £72m to the party.

James Orr, who was then Reform UK’s head of policy and a Cambridge professor, discussed potential difficulties around future donations from Harborne and Delo in undercover footage captured by the investigative reporting group Verbatim.

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