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TORY leadership hopefuls have trousered a quarter of a million pounds in donations over the last fortnight as their party descends into all-out civil war with the long-awaited departure of Theresa May.
Three candidates have amassed the largest war chests with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt each pocketing £100,000.
The staggering sums are revealed in the latest register of MPs’ interests published every fortnight.
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
