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TORY leadership hopefuls have trousered a quarter of a million pounds in donations over the last fortnight as their party descends into all-out civil war with the long-awaited departure of Theresa May.
Three candidates have amassed the largest war chests with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt each pocketing £100,000.
The staggering sums are revealed in the latest register of MPs’ interests published every fortnight.
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