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Who’s funding the forthcoming election? From supermarket heirs to entrepreneurs

Individual donors have been dwindling in their support of the Tories and flocking to Labour – with some even switching sides

The Independent UK

Tory donor’s Hastings ‘fun factory’ closes abruptly after £150,000 grant

Lubov Chernukhin’s amusement centre, which received money from levelling up fund, shuts doors after less than a year

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 Tory donors since Rishi Sunak became prime minister

Exclusive: An astonishing four-fifths of all individual donations made to the Conservative Party since Mr Sunak entered Downing Street have come from just 10 wealthy people

The Independent UK

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Scandal-hit Tory donor opens wallet to Starmer

Exclusive: Major blow for Rishi Sunak as tycoon who donated £750,000 opens wallet to Starmer – and hotelier who gifted £100,000 says 'incompetence' is driving backers away

The Independent UK

British political giving is increasingly dominated by the rich – it’s a system ripe for abuse

The next UK general election will be the most expensive ever, says Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale

The Guardian - UK

Labour urges Tories to hand back £5m donation from Mohamed Mansour

Anneliese Dodds questions why it took so long for one of the Conservative senior treasurer’s firms to sever its Russia links

The Guardian - UK

£150,000 levelling up grant awarded to Tory donor’s amusement centre in Hastings

Owens centre, co-founded by Lubov Chernukhin, raises questions about whether public money has gone to projects most in need of it

The Guardian - UK

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Russian-born banker Lubov Chernukhin hands another £52,000 to Tories

Lubov Chernukhin, the UK's biggest female political donor ever, is married to a former Putin ally - and a frequent guest at Tory fundraising dinners where she has bought privileged access to successive Prime Ministers

Daily Mirror

Tory chair Ben Elliot resigns after Liz Truss announced as leader

Boris Johnson loyalist credited with ‘supercharging’ donations was dogged by controversy

The Guardian - UK

Top Tory Ben Elliot and donors being considered for gongs in Boris Johnson's honours list

Big ticket donors are being discussed for peerages - many of them members of Mr Johnson’s “advisory committee” of donors who are granted access to senior ministers in return for giving more than £250,000 to the party

Daily Mirror

Bids for dinner with Boris Johnson reach £120k at Tory Summer Party

The dining experience also includes Theresa May and David Cameron

Wales Online

Inside glitzy Tory Summer Party where donors bid £120k for dinner with Boris Johnson

Super-rich donors paid thousands to attend the lavish Tory Summer Party, held at London's V&A museum, where they rubbed shoulders with Cabinet ministers, party chiefs and the PM

Daily Mirror

Russian-born husband of Tory donor ‘earned millions via oligarch connections’

Vladimir Chernukhin’s wife, Lubov, has given Conservatives more than £2m

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine invasion boosts calls for UK politics to tackle Russian cash

London (AFP) - From huge donations to political parties and bids for games of tennis with senior ministers, to nominations for peerages, Russian money in British politics has been a recurrent issue for years.

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson branded 'national security threat' over fundraiser hours before Ukraine war

The Prime Minister spoke at ‘London's most magnificent 18th-century aristocratic palace’ - with a prominent Russian-born donor reportedly present - hours before Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine. He is said to have left early to ‘deal with the war’

Daily Mirror

David Cameron defends tennis game with Russian donor as they 'didn't talk about Putin'

Ex-banker Lubov Chernukhin, a major donor to the Conservative Party, whose husband is President Putin’s former deputy finance minister, paid £160,000 for a match with David Cameron and Boris Johnson - in 2014

Daily Mirror

Russian-born Tory donor given 'Knighthood' by San Marino in London ceremony

Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband Vladimir served as deputy finance minister to President Putin before coming to the UK, was awarded the Award of St Agatha - one of San Marino's highest honours

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson rejects call to give Tory donation from Russian banker to Ukraine causes

The prime minister was pressed about donations from Lubov Chernukhin, wife of a former minister in Vladimir Putin’s government

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The Independent UK

Give Russian-linked donations to Ukrainian charities, Labour MP tells PM

Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband was Russia’s deputy finance minister, donated £80,250 to the Conservatives at the end of 2021, new data shows.

Daily Mirror

Tories pocket £80,000 from Russian-born banker just months before invasion of Ukraine

Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband Vladimir served as deputy finance minister to President Putin before coming to the UK, made two donations of £13,750 in October and £66,500 in December last year

The Independent UK

Tory donations rise as party continues to take money from Russia-linked backer

Conservatives report another £80,000 in donations from Lubov Chernukhin

Daily Mirror

Meet the Russian-linked tycoons who gave Tory Party £2million in donations

Among Russia-linked figures filling Tory coffers is banker Lubov Chernukhin, married to Putin’s former deputy finance minister. She has donated £1.7m. Ms Chernukhin regularly bids in Tory fundraising auctions

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