Party can boost its campaign power with funds from billionaire backers, but it can also lose support from ordinary Britons All things being equal, pretty much any political strategist would welcome a £72 m war chest; a sum higher than the combined spending of every major party at the 2024 general election.
But all things are not equal, and with such a huge amount comes risk. Reform UK has been vocal in its arguments that two sudden £36 m windfalls from billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne merely “levels the playing field” with the bigger parties when it comes to funding.
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