{"id":73,"date":"2026-09-03T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/electoral-commission-reveals-reform-uk-leading-in-q2-donations-as-labour-attacks-spending-plans\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:13:52","slug":"electoral-commission-reveals-reform-uk-leading-in-q2-donations-as-labour-attacks-spending-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/electoral-commission-reveals-reform-uk-leading-in-q2-donations-as-labour-attacks-spending-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission reveals Reform UK leading in Q2 donations as Labour attacks spending plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK continued to dominate political fundraising in the second quarter of 2026, receiving significantly more donations than its rivals, according to figures released by the Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The party declared total donations of \u00a35.3 million, outpacing Labour\u2019s \u00a33.6 million and the Conservatives\u2019 \u00a32.8 million. The bulk of Reform\u2019s funds came from billionaire Ben Delo, who contributed \u00a34 million.<\/p>\n<p>Delo, a British cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was convicted in the United States for failing to implement adequate anti-money-laundering controls within his business.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Labour condemned Reform\u2019s proposal for \u00a3100 billion in public spending cuts, describing the plan as \u201chalf-baked\u201d and \u201cincredibly reckless.\u201d Party officials warned that such reductions could jeopardize essential public services, including hospitals, schools, and law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK received \u00a35.3m in Q2 2026 donations, led by convicted billionaire Ben Delo, while Labour condemned the party&#8217;s \u00a3100bn cut proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[171,170,172,169,168,10],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-electoral-commission","tag-labour","tag-political-donations","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}