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In the Guardian today:
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge – UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge – British politics is increasingly being funded by individual billionaires with a wave of mega-donations having flooded into UK political parties over the past two parliaments.
A total of £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research reveals.
The figures from the IPPR thinktank show how big money is playing an ever more influential role in Westminster, with a particular rise in mega-donations of more than £1m.
The research found that contributions from individual donors have accelerated since the Brexit party received £10m from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher Harborne and the Liberal Democrats were given £8m by David Sainsbury, the supermarket tycoon, who has now returned to Labour.
The SNP do not, of course, get a mention.
Have any billionaires funded the SNP?
There is no public record of a UK-style billionaire mega-donor bankrolling the SNP the way Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo have funded Reform UK, or Frank Hester the Conservatives, or Gary Lubner (and historically David Sainsbury) Labour.
Q1 2026 private donations accepted by the SNP were only £125,000.
The party has said this itself. In 2026 fundraising it used the line: “We don’t have billionaire donors — just people who believe Scotland can do better.” John Swinney has contrasted the SNP with opponents “raising huge sums from millionaires and billionaires.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26064640.funds-scotlands-parties-donors-behind-holyrood-race/
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