Rebel Nigel Farage Reform The party has attracted more than a dozen donors from the British formerly dominant conservative party, reveals analysis of new data, undergoing a threat that Tori face from the right -wing populist party that has been modeling on the Maga President Maga Maga.
In total, the UK reform raised £ 4.75 million ($ 6.1 million) last year, an abrupt increase of less than $ 200,000 that the party raised in 2023. A third of the money came from former donors to conservatives.
The New York Times analyzed any donation that the UK reform was reported by the British Campaign for Financing of Guardians 2024, including the figures for the last quarter of the year released on Thursday to get the first big shot of who fundes the party.
The biggest single donation in the last quarter arrived from Roger Nagioff, a former conservative donor, former banker Lehman Brothers and an investor based in Monaco, who donated £ 100,000 in December. Other major donations in 2024 included one million pounds from the company owned by the deputy reform leader, Richard Tice and £ 500,000 from Fione Cottrell.
Conservative exodus began after Mr. Farage, the ideological ally of Mr. Trump, took over the duty last year as a reform leader just before the British general elections. The long-standing political disorder and former merchant of commodity advocated for Brexit, Mr. Farage has committed to processing British conservatism, pushing the movement to the right to the nationalist platform he frames as anti-cestablishing and anti-immigration.
The reform has grown in National Surveysurpass the conservative party and occupied its first municipal places. Although the ruling Labor Party does not have to hold a general election by 2029, the success of reforming funds is undergoing the momentum of Mr. Farage and could help his party professionalize because he is provoking two major parties in local elections in May.
While Mr. Farage described support for reforms as “rebellion against the institution“34 percent of new party donors are former conservative donors, a centuries -old right -wing party that held power 14 years In Britain before last year’s general elections.
Sam Power, an expert on political finance at Bristol University, said that the latest data was a great warning to the Conservative Party, led by the chemadenoch.
“The movement of donors from the conservative party to reform already I think it will cause the alarm bells at the headquarters of the Conservative Party,” Mr. Power said.
“The money conversations and what you can see, if the money goes from one party to another, it is the main sign that sands are changing,” he said. “Not only in terms of choice and the public, which is a reform, but also that donors are increasingly reforming curious.”
Other main donors of bankrupt reform in 2024 included billionaires and millionaires, individuals based in overseas jurisdictions or with investments in offshore, climate change skeptics and those with investment in fossil fuel or other industry of climate pollution pollution, The Times.
The conservative party approached the comment.
Reform, which Mr. Farage originally created in 2019 Like Brexit PartyHe won 14.3 percent of the vote in last year’s general elections. But in recent weeks he has arrived around 25 percent on several pollsSometimes they surpassed conservatives and work.
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