Recent examples of funding in the news

December 2022 - fraction of Conservative peers that have given >£100,000 to the party + total of their donations

• 27 out of 274 (about 1 in 10)

• £50m

December 2022 - trend of rate of Tory donors being given peerages

• Increasing over the last 6 years during May and Johnson’s tenures

Number of donors submitted for peerage by Johnson

• 6 (during his 3 years in power)

• Incl 3 financiers

  • Sir Michael Hintze, given £4.5m

  • Michael Spencer, given £7m (w/his company)

  • Peter Cruddas, given £3.4m

• 2 more were tipped for Peerages but were removed from the final list

  • David Ross - the Mustique holiday organiser

  • Stuart Marks, tech entrepreneur

February 2023 - donor to the election campaign

• £2m given by Sainsbury

  • Used to be a consistently huge donor, withdrew his support in 2016, has now given his first £multimillion donation since then

August 2023 - increase in Labour income in comparison to the Tories

• Labour’s 2023 donations totalled more than 50% higher than the Tories

  • L: £47.2m

  • C: £30.5m

LD total 2023 income

• Just under £6m

• Up from 2022

SNP 2023 income

• £4.2m

• Down from 2022 due to halving of number of donations from 2021

2023 - C difference between spending and earning

• £2m

• Spent just over £33m, which is £2m over what it earned

2023 - drop in C donations

• From £20.5m to £18.1m

February 2024 - Labour spike in donations

• Recieved highest ever donation total of £13m, boosting Labour coffers to over £31m

  • Gary Lubner gave highest single donation ever of £4.5m

  • Sainsbury gave £3m

  • Perrin (Sainsbury’s daughter) gave highest single donation by a woman of £1m

• 2023 individual donations more than double 2022, up £5m from 2019

2023 - Conservative raise of election spending limit

• From £19m to £34m

2024 GE donations received by Labour

• £9.8m

  • 5x that of the Tories

2024 GE donations received by Tories

£1.9m

2024 GE donations received by LD

£1.7m

2024 GE donations received by ReformUK

£1.6m

2024 GE donations received by Greens

£160,000

2024 GE donations received by SNP

£127,998