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Tether billionaire Christopher Harborne donated another £3 million to Reform UK in the first quarter of the year.
BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated a further £4 million across two donations.
The crypto billionaires’ contributions to Reform UK amount to some 28% of the donations received by all political parties in Q1 2026.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party collected $9.4 million (£7 million) from cryptocurrency billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo in the first quarter of 2026, a sum that exceeded the total donations received by each of the Conservative and Labour parties.
Christopher Harborne, ranked as the UK’s sixth-richest person with a net worth of $24.4 billion (£18.2 billion), donated £3 million to Reform UK…
