LONDON, Sept 11 : Crypto investor Ben Delo said on Friday he would donate a record £36 million ($48.7 million), or £1 million a month before the next national election, to Britain’s populist Reform UK to help the party get ready for government.

Delo, the British co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX who was convicted of a ‌Bank Secrecy Act violation in the United States and pardoned by President Donald Trump, said he wanted to ensure a “fair fight” with Britain’s two main parties — the governing Labour Party and main opposition Conservatives.

After enjoying a commanding lead in opinion polls for over a year, Reform, led by veteran Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, has seen its support wane over a series of allegations about…