Reform UK has accepted £9m in donations in the first three months of the year, new data shows.

It’s the largest amount given to any of the parties in that period, figures from the Electoral Commission show.

Nigel Farage’s party received £3m from Thailand-based crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne.

Ben Delo, another cryptocurrency businessman based in Hong Kong donated £4m to Reform in two lump sums, in January and March.

A biotechnology executive and venture capitalist, David Grainger, used a series of smaller donations between January and March 2026 to donate £1,150,000 to Reform. 

The Tories received the second largest sums over the same period, taking in £6m.

But their largest single donation was from a woman called Mary V Doran, who gave Kemi Badenoch’s party £1.1m.

Labour raked in some £4m in the first quarter of the year, with its biggest donors also being its regulars – Lord David Sainsbury and Gary Lubner. 

Both men donated £550,000 each, while the party also benefitted from substantial sums from affiliated unions, such as Unite and Usdaw.

The Liberal Democrats received £2.9m in donations, and the Green Party took in about £300,000.

It follows the introduction of a cap on the amount that foreign-based individuals can donate, which came into effect in March.

These people can now only donate £100,000 a year.

The change has come in after Harborne donated £12m to Reform UK last year.

Separately, Farage also received a gift of £5m from Harborne before he announced he would stand in the 2024 general election to become an MP.

Delo, the Hong Kong-based donor, has said he is moving back to the UK so he will not be limited to the Labour government’s cap on foreign donors.