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Will Labour cap political donations?

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In 2006 , Tony Blair tasked Hayden Philips with writing a review of political finance in Britain .

He recommended that donations to political parties should be capped at 50,000 ; limits should be placed on election spending.

This, of course, was before Elon Musk , the world’s richest man has denied that he plans to donate $ 100 m to Nigel Farage and Reform UK .

Labour has more wealthy donors than ever before, and is still reliant on trade union funding.

Just 13 per cent of Britons think campaign funding is transparent enough.

Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner.

But so far it seems like Labour ’s inner circle is more wary of upsetting its donors than it is willing to seize the opportunity to transform our politics.

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