{"id":768366,"date":"2026-09-12T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768366\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:26:09","slug":"christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-delo-party-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/768366\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Harborne matches \u00a336m Reform donation of Ben Delo | Party funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne has given \u00a336m to Reform UK, matching a donation from fellow billionaire Ben Delo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pledges are jointly the largest donations made to a UK party and are likely to intensify calls for a cap on political donations.<\/p>\n

Reform leader, Nigel Farage<\/a>, said he was \u201chonoured and humbled\u201d by the donations, which come at a time when Reform is facing intense scrutiny regarding its finances.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan police is conducting an inquiry into Reform\u2019s finances<\/a>, and Farage is facing a parliamentary standards investigation into a \u00a35m gift from Harborne, made before he was first elected an MP in 2024. Reform UK and Farage have denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Farage said: \u201cI am honoured and humbled that Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne<\/a> have shown such confidence in Reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth men know that we are the only party that can turn the country around and win the next general election \u2013 thanks to their generosity, we are now able to fight that election on a level playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harborne said: \u201cThere will be a lot of media speculation regarding this donation. So what do I expect in return for my donations? Nothing. No peerage, no policy change, just a party that is ready for government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have already accumulated enough wealth for the rest of my life. I am committed to putting that to work for Britain and humanity as a whole. I want the same as everyone else in Britain: for my children and grandchildren to have the chance to live happy and productive lives here and be rewarded for their hard work.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the next general election people will have to vote for the party that they think will best get that done and I\u2019m making a donation very clearly to the party that I believe will do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne has given \u00a336m to Reform UK, matching a donation from fellow billionaire Ben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}