Labour boosts election war chest with record quarter for donations
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6EHH3)
Donations in second quarter were 10.4m, including 3m from David Sainsbury and 2.2m from business tycoon Gary Lubner
Labour had a record quarter for donations, receiving more than 10.4m, showing the party is outgunning the Conservatives financially in the run-up to the next election.
The party's coffers were boosted by a 3m gift from David Sainsbury, the supermarket baron, as well as 2.2m from Gary Lubner, who made hundreds of millions of pounds running the company behind Autoglass.
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