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TORY leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has raked in over a quarter of a million pounds in donations over the last fortnight.
In the same period his only rival for the top job, Jeremy Hunt, has not received a penny.
The latest figures published by Parliament strongly suggest Mr Johnson has consolidated his lead among the party’s wealthiest supporters.
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES