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Reform UK has received a second £36m donation in as many days, as cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a record-breaking donation announced late on Friday.
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Harborne wrote in the Telegraph, external that his "competitive spirit" had inspired him to equal Ben Delo's donation - the largest ever given to a UK political party.
The Thailand-based entrepreneur said he expected "nothing personally" in return aside from "a party that is ready for government".
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The £72m from these two donations is more than the total received by all UK political parties last year.
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Reform leader Nigel Farage said Harborne and Delo's "generosity" meant the party would "now be able to fight and win the next general election on a level playing field".
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Harborne has already donated millions to Reform and Farage, who is currently under investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner over whether he should have declared a £5m cash gift from Harborne ahead of the 2024 election.
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Farage has argued that he was under no obligation to register the "purely private" gift, as it was unrelated to his parliamentary or political activities.
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The party is also facing scrutiny over its finances after a broadcast by Channel 4 News last week showed two senior Reform aides apparently suggesting a way around electoral law to secure foreign party donations.
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The Metropolitan Police has said it is investigating, while the party denies any wrongdoing.
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The force is also looking into donations given to the party by Fiona Cottrell, mother of longstanding Farage ally George Cottrell, as well as a company controlled by its deputy leader Richard Tice.
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Harborne wrote on Saturday that he had "already accumulated enough wealth for the rest of my life", while Reform was a "start-up party" that lacked "the benefit of hundreds of years of patronage".
"A start-up party needs more money than can be provided by membership fees alone, to build and sustain itself and be ready for government," he said.
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Harborne and Delo's donations mark the largest sums received by a UK political party since they had to begin declaring them in 2001.
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Delo, who also announced his donation in a Telegraph op-ed, said he was giving the money away because he wanted a "fair fight and a level playing field".
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Addressing the recent scrutiny of Reform's finances, he said: "My conclusion from Reform's recent troubles is that they should spend less time trying to raise funds to compete on equal terms and more time preparing for government."
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There are currently no restrictions on the amount of money UK-based donors can give to political parties.
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However, the Labour government has introduced a £100,000 cap on donations from British citizens living oversea, and plans to introduce a similar one for those who have recently returned to the UK.
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