What are the rules around political donations in the UK?published at 10:44 BST<\/p>\n
10:44 BST<\/p>\n
What counts as a donation? <\/p>\n
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) defines donations as any money, goods or services given to a party without charge or on non-commercial terms. <\/p>\n
Some examples of donations include: a gift of money or property, sponsorship of an event or publication, a subscription or affiliation payments, the free or specially discounted use of an office. <\/p>\n
Do all donations have to be recorded?<\/p>\n
No, donations under \u00a3500 do not need to be recorded or reported to the Electoral Commission. <\/p>\n
If a donation or multiple donations exceeding \u00a311,800 are received from the same source within a calendar year they must be reported. <\/p>\n
Is there a cap on donations? <\/p>\n
There are currently no restrictions on the amount of money UK-based donors can give to political parties and politicians.<\/p>\n
Why is Reform receiving attention over the \u00a372m in donations? <\/p>\n
The sheer scale of Reform UK’s record-breaking donation windfall has prompted debate. <\/p>\n
At the beginning of this month, before the donations were announced, the government said it was “determined to tackle” the issue of “mega-donors” and was “working at pace to find a solution”. <\/p>\n
But Reform have accused Labour of wanting to “rig the system” by changing the rules on party donations as they “know they can’t win an election fairly”. <\/p>\n
What would the new proposed law change?<\/p>\n
The government is seeking to change the law on donations to UK political parties from British expats.<\/p>\n
This would include the introduction of a \u00a3100,000 cap on donations and loans from overseas voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are the rules around political donations in the UK?published at 10:44 BST 10:44 BST What counts as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-770400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770400","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=770400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}