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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey and Henry Dyer

Will the £72m of donations to Reform UK be allowed?

Christopher Harborne, Nigel Farage and Ben Delo
Christopher Harborne, Nigel Farage and Ben Delo. Photograph: LPN/Getty Images/The Ben Delo Foundation

Reform UK announced over the weekend the two biggest single political donations in British history: £36m from the Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and a further £36m from another crypto billionaire, Ben Delo.

However, by Monday experts were questioning whether the donations would be legal, especially under the elections bill that the government is bringing through parliament and which will apply retrospectively.

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