Labour declared more donations than all other parties combined during the general election campaign, taking more than £9.5m in total. Final totals from the elections watchdog show the Conservatives raised just under £1.9m, less than a tenth of what they raised during the 2019 election, when the party declared over £19m.
The Conservatives’ biggest source of donations was a lottery, which raised £225,000 in total throughout the campaign. Labour’s biggest donor was Lord David Sainsbury, who gave the party £2.5m. The figures cover donations from when Parliament was shut on 30 May up to polling day on 4 July. Lord Sainsbury, the former chairman of the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain, was the biggest donor of the campaign.
He previously served as a science and innovation minister in Tony Blair’s government. In total, more than £8m of Labour’s donations came from 10 sources. They included: two unions, the former Autoglass boss Gary Lubner, hedge fund managers Martin Taylor and Stuart Roden, the sculptor Antony Gormley, the production company Toledo Productions, tech investor Danny Luhde-Thompson and former professional poker player Derek Webb, who founded the Campaign for Fairer Gambling.
The National Conservative Draws Society, a weekly lottery licensed by the Gambling Commission, contributed a total of £225,000 to the Conservatives over the course of the campaign. It was the largest amount declared by the party from any one source, according to analysis of Electoral Commission data.
Source: BBC
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