Russell Haggar
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The Funding of Political Parties : External Links Only
February 2024
Click here for Rules for funding for political Parties [IfG January 2024]
Click here for Reported Donations [ The Electoral Commission March 2023]
Click here for Money and Politic; analysing donations to UK parties 2000- 2021
Click here for Pandora Papers: Donations to Political Parties [BBC October 2021]
Click here for The Guardian Page on Party Funding [Many1700+ articles]
Click here for The Financial Times on Party Funding [Many articles]
Click here for General Election 2019 : Which Party received the most donations?
February 2019
Click here for latest data on Political Party Funding from the Electoral Commission. February 2019
Click here for Guardian coverage of intra-party disputes over Conservative Party funding. February 2019
Click here and here for Guardian articles showing Labour raised more money than the Conservatives February 2019
Click here for overall Guardian coverage of Party Funding February 2019
Click here for The Financial Health of British Political Parties [Sam Power: LSE Blog : September 2018] February 2019
Click here for information from Britain's Changing Democracy Democratic Audit publication 2018 February 2019
Click here for information from The Electoral Reform Society[2018] February 2019
Click here for useful article on political party funding from the Political Studies Association [2017] February 2019
Click here for Channel 4 Fact Check on Political Party Funding 2017 February 2019
Click here and here for Guardian on Party Funding
Click here for the Guardian on Lobbying
Click here for the Independent on Party Funding
Click here for the Telegraph on the City and Conservative party finances
Click here and here and here and here for BBC on Party Funding
Click here and here for BBC coverage of financial services industry financial support of the Conservative Party.
Click here and here for BBC on Party Funding in the wake of revelations surrounding cash for access to David Cameron and here for the subsequent award of large damages to the Ex Tory Party Treasurer.
Click here for the Democratic Audit on Party Funding
Click here and here for more recent information from the BBC
Click here for BBC information Electoral Commission on funding in 2011
Click here for Guardian article by George Monbiot
Click here and here and here and here and here for BBC coverage and here and here for Guardian coverage and here and here for Independent coverage of Labour , Unite and Falkirk by-election July 4th-9th 2013
Click here for Observer article by Andrew Rawnsley on declining membership of political parties July 14th
Click here for Observer article on business contributions to the Conservative Party July 14th
Click here for BBC coverage of latest party political funding data July 26th
Click here and here for Guardian coverage of GMB's reduced financial contribution to the Labour Party September 2013
Click here for Independent Coverage of Labour and Party Funding September 6th