Does £72m win you an election?

The News Agents

Monday, 14 September 2026 - 50 minutes

£36m donations are like busses for Reform - you wait ages for one and then two come along at once. Reform's £72m haul this weekend dwarfs the money raised by all the other parties - it is a simply unprecedented level of funding for British politics. There are complications. Are the donations within the rules? Could Labour change the rules to prevent them? And most importantly - can it actually make a difference? Could two crypto billionaires potentially swing an election for Nigel Farage?

Later, Anthony Scaramucci on how Trump is raking it in from crypto - and where American democracy has gone wrong.

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