The Electoral Commission has reported on political donations during the 2024 Election campaign
Labour raised £9.75m in the six week campaign (£5.4m in 2019)
The Tories raised £1.87m (£19.4m in 2019)
LibDems raised £1.6m
Reform raised £1.6m
Labour’s total was comprised of 24% of union donations (2019 90%). UNISON donated £1.49m. The GMB and FBU donated £100,000 each. Unite did not contribute. Labour relied more on wealthy individual donors. Lord Sainsbury gave £2.5m and Gary Lubner £1.49m
Of the 248 donors who contributed to Johnson’s 2019 campaign only 6 did so in 2024 and the Tories raised only 10% of the money they did in 2019
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