Who funded Labour’s victory? Where did £9.5m come from? We reveal all

Facts4EU.Org analyses campaign monies to all parties, showing Keir Starmer’s Labour trousered 72.5%

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Gone are the days when big donors only gave to the Conservatives

Elections can’t be won without money. This is a simple fact in the modern age. Rallies, campaign teams, advertising, videos, social media – all these things are expensive.

The Facts4EU.Org think-tank has delved into the official records for political donations and public money in the first three weeks of the general election campaign. We believe the results of our analysis will astonish many readers.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Monies received by the political parties

First three weeks of the general election campaign

Labour Party & Co-operative Party : £9,486,637 (72.5%)
Conservative and Unionist Party (GB) : £1,264,872 (9.7%)
Liberal Democrats : £1,092,252 (8.3%)
Reform UK : £981,000 (7.5% )
Scottish National Party : £164,303 (1.3%)
Green Party : £40,000 (0.3%)
Climate Party : £25,000 (0.2%)
Social Democratic Party : £25,000 (0.2%)
Workers Party of Britain : £12,000 (0.1%)
TOTAL : £13,091,064

[Source: Electoral Commission, amounts exceeding the £11,500 limit above which they must be declared.]

It used to be the case that big business gave huge sums to the Tories and the Unions gave to Labour

This is no longer true. Our analysis of payments to the Labour Party shows that Labour did not only trounce the Conservatives in the voting, they also trounced them in the monies they received in the first three critical weeks of the election campaign.

In addition to winning the funding battle for private donors, Labour also received far more in public funding: £652,411 for Labour versus £22,453 for the Conservatives.

So exactly who gave more than £9 million to the Labour Party?

Below we can reveal Labour’s top donors

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Those who powered Labour’s campaign and who really enabled Keir Starmer to motor into No.10 with ease - the Top 40

£2,500,000 : Lord Sainsbury - Individual
£1,490,000 : UNISON - Trade Union
£900,000 : Gary Lubner - Individual
£700,000 : Martin Taylor - Individual
£652,411 : House of Commons - Public Fund
£500,000 : Toledo Productions Limited - Company
£500,000 : Stuart Roden - Individual
£500,000 : Antony Gormley - Individual
£300,000 : USDAW - Trade Union
£250,000 : Danny Luhde-Thompson - Individual
£100,000 : Tony Bury - Individual
£100,000 : ASLEF - Trade Union
£70,000 : Clive Hollick - Individual
£70,000 : Stuart Roden - Individual
£60,000 : Susan Rankin - Individual
£100,000 : Nick Razey - Individual
£40,000 : Karim Nakhla - Individual
£32,908 : CWU - Trade Union
£25,000 : Tony Langham - Individual

£25,000 : Mark Binks - Individual
£25,000 : Clare Parsons - Individual
£25,000 : Community Union - Trade Union
£25,000 : Jason Howlett - Individual
£25,000 : Harish Sodha - Individual
£25,000 : Simon Moran - Individual
£25,000 : GMB - Trade Union
£25,000 : Jason Howlett - Individual
£24,000 : Thiago De Carvalho - Individual
£20,000 : Medical and Professional Services Limited - Company
£20,000 : Andy Gray - Individual
£38,800 : Anna Lisbet Rausing - Individual
£15,000 : Lucy Garrett - Individual
£14,471 : USDAW - Trade Union
£14,322 : GMB - Trade Union
£12,000 : Anna Turley - Individual
£12,000 : Rob Sewell - Individual
£11,725 : Fire Brigades Union - Trade Union

[Source: Official records of payments received by the Labour Party, 30 May – 26 June 2024, located and analysed by Facts4EU.Org.]

‘The times they are a’ changing’

The Conservatives used to be able to talk of Labour being beholden to its “trades union paymasters”. Our research suggests the Tories may need to alter this narrative.

The analysis we carried out above shows that of the £9.5m received in the first three weeks of the campaign by the Labour Party, (including payments to its associate the Co-Operative Party), only just under £2m (21%) came from trades unions. 79% came in from private individuals or companies.

By far the largest single donation was made by Lord Sainsbury. £2.5 million is a great deal of money to donate to a party that he will have known was already going to win, with or without his help.

COMING UP:

In a rare 'double bill Sunday', we have a second article for you.

Observations

When we started this research we expected the report would be about the money Tory donors wasted in backing Rishi Sunak. In fact Labour was able to outspend the Tories by seven to one, albeit based purely on funding in the first three weeks of the campaign.

Does Labour still ‘owe’ the unions? Yes. £2 million is a lot of money. That said, the amount of private money flooding into Labour surprised us. It far outweighs the amount that the seven unions donated.

Now that Keir Starmer is sitting on his ‘super-majority’, the question is how he will ultimately reward those who stumped up so much cash for his cause.

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Reader Comments 6

1. Sparky , Sunday, July 07, 2024, 06:18:

Interesting analysis. Although still influential, the Unions do not have the same power as they used to. Hopefully we will see more honesty and integrity in UK politics after the last 8 years.
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It will take the Cons a long time and a lot of soul searching before they start to recover this king of support.
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Reform need to look at their support very carefully. Recent piece in the Guardian regarding a key supporter of Reform “George Cottrell, the high-rolling convicted fraudster at Nigel Farage’s side”. More scrutiny will be put on Reform now they have MP’s and I don’t think it will be pretty.
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But we’ll done Labour for great results in the Euros and at Silverstone.

2. Have You wondered. , Sunday, July 07, 2024, 07:29:

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Another corruption of UK democracy along side FPTP?
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As the article very well shows - money talks and it's an uneven playing field.
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Maybe a germ of an idea, give each and every party, for instance, £1m to run their election. That levels the field.
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On another note about corruption:
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The UK has all the hallmarks of a despotic nation?
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The last 40yrs of tribal politics that has been asset stripped by the oligarchs, the silverware given away and rendered the political scene to a third world corrupt nation, and now continues.
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Political parties tactics denigrating and slurring each other. 3rd rate (literally) actors and political plants, biased media presentations.
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An undemocratic voting system that favours only the few in Westminster . 9m votes for Labour 411 seats - 4m votes for Reform 5 seats.
(Funny how the actual vote numbers are comparatively hidden in the media, prefering % or seats?)
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The hypocrisy of the big speeches in front of a lectern where the winners spout the historic words that they will meet everyone's needs, security and prosperity along with eradicating past mis-justices, that in reality will be the opposite and only the gullible of the electorate believe it.
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This, the once proud nation that fought for democracy and justice that it developed and spread around the world.
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Where did we the electorate let it go wrong.
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3. Sparky , Sunday, July 07, 2024, 08:06:

2 HYW. How’s democracy working out over last few years. A liar elected in 2019, an unelected PM that was disastrous (very funny watching her behaviour at vote count) followed by another unelected PM. Now we’ve got a genuine election result, the Brexitears are not happy because it’s not what they wanted. Sounds familiar somehow?

4. Northern Muppet , Sunday, July 07, 2024, 08:09:

I'm surprised not to see Dale Vince's name on there.
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I understood that as well as funding JSO, he put quite a lot of dosh the labour party's way.
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Not that he'd expect anything in return....

5. Gazzablack , Sunday, July 07, 2024, 12:37:

Jacqui Smith - Resigned from government for misuse of expenses.
Now recruited by Starmer, getting MORE EXPENSES and a salary.
The rot has begun
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Number of gangs smashed - 0
Number of new returns agreements - 0
Number of Bangladeshis deported - 0
I know it's only day 2, but does anyone think these figures will change by next year?
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Jacqui Smith, Patrick Vallance, Richard Hemer and James Timpson
That's four unelected cabinet members.

6. Adam Hiley , Monday, July 08, 2024, 16:11:

If Labour lasts 5 years in Government (unlikely hopefully) they will soon start doing things that are Unpopular building on the Green Belt and leaving our Borders open for example some of the cabinet members are chancers Rayner, Cooper Miliband and Lammy none of these people should be left in charge of a whelk stall let alone a Country

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