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DONATIONS to the Labour Party hit an annual record high last year and outstripped the Tories by almost £10 million, the Electoral Commission said yesterday.
Figures released by the commission show Labour received £51,153,000 in 2015 whereas the Tories’ income totalled £41,887,000.
The increase represented a huge jump from its 2014 income of £39.6m.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES