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BIG money backers helped the Tories bank more cash in the three months before the election than all the other parties put together, Electoral Commission figures revealed yesterday.
The Tories scooped £15,404,569 between January and March as Britain’s richest rallied round their party before May’s poll.
That included a £375,900 donation from James R Lupton, chairman of investment bankers Greenhill Europe, which has interests in health privateers. It meant the Tories topped up their war chest by £22.3 million over the campaign. They have raised £108.1m since 2010.
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