Nigel Farage’s Reform UK collected £72 million, roughly $97 million, from two crypto billionaires inside 48 hours, after BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo disclosed a £36 million gift in a Telegraph column on the evening of Friday 11 September and Tether investor Christopher Harborne matched the figure to the pound a day later. Either cheque on its own would be the largest single donation ever made to a British political party, comfortably clearing the previous record of £10 million that Lord John Sainsbury left the Conservatives in 2022.

The combined total is the part that reframes British political finance, because £72 million exceeds what every registered UK party raised between them across the whole of 2025, and it arrived from two…