Parties raise £5.8m in second week of campaign – with Labour greatly exceeding others
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Labour raised almost £4.4m in the second full week of the general election campaign – close to 15 times the amount brought in by the Tories.
Rishi Sunak’s party took in just under £300,000 between 6 and 12 June.
Reform UK raised more than double this figure, with £742,000 taken.
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However, £500,000 of this money was handed over by Britain Means Business, a company run by Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice.
The Liberal Democrats also took in more than the Conservatives, raising £335,000.
The Green Party raised £20,000.
Labour raised £4,383,400 – and its partner the Co-operative Party raised £60,000.
The Conservatives raised £292,500, according to Electoral Commission figures.
The Tory figure is also roughly half of what they raised in the first full week of the campaign.
Between 30 May and 5 June, the Conservatives took in £574,918, compared to Labour’s £926,908.
However, looking at the 2019 election, the Conservative Party raised ten times this in the first week of the campaign.
They took in £5.7m between 6 and 12 November 2019.
Labour took in £218,500 at this time.
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