Reform UK Has Recorded The Largest Ever Single Donation From A Living Person In UK Political History
It looks like someone out there is really keen for Nigel Farage to become Prime Minister after Reform UK recorded the largest ever single donation from a living person in UK history.
The donation comes from a former Tory donor who is now based in Thailand – which is quite amusing because you wouldn’t have necessarily thought that it would be an immigrant donating record amounts of money to Reform UK.
As per LBC, Thai-based Christopher Harborne donated £9m to Nigel Farage’s party this year, making up just under a third of the £24m in total that was donated to political parties in the UK between July and October 2025.
Harborne (below) was born and raised in the UK but is now based in Bangkok, where he chairs the investment company Sherriff Global Group.
He had previously donated millions to Reform in 2019 – back when it was known as the Brexit Party. However, between 2021 and 2022, he donated close to £2million to the Tories. I guess old Nigel has won him back round?
It does make you wonder what Harborne has to gain out of Reform UK and Nigel Farage taking power at the next General Election in 2029. Surely he’s not donated all those millions out of the goodness of his own heart, right? I mean, I don’t care how much money someone has; if you’re donating that amount of money to a political party, you’re expecting some kind of return.
Sure enough, back when Harborne was donating millions to Boris Johnson and the Tories, this is what you’d find:
Don’t hate the player, hate the game?
Somewhat surprisingly, the second largest amount ever donated to a political party was £8m to the Liberal Democrats by Lord David Sainsbury in 2019 (seems like money down the drain, really). Lord John Sainsbury donated more than £10.2m to the Conservatives in 2022, but that was after he had died, meaning Reform UK hold the record for the largest single donation from a living person.
The largest donation Labour ever received was £4 million from Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund Quadrature Capital in 2024.
For the former BBC presenter who claims the channel’s make-up deparment used ‘saliva’ and ‘other bodily fluids’ on Nigel Farage, click HERE. Surely not?
