The British populist party, the UK reform, was expected to bring more than $ 1.25 million on Tuesday to glowing funds on Tuesday, said party official, an extraordinary amount for a party that was on the verge of national policy six months ago.
The American -style event was the first major collection of funds since Nigel Farage took over as a party leader, and his ideological ally, Donald J. Trump, returned to the White House.
Mr. Farage wants to process British conservatism, just as Mr. Trump had in the United States. The movement pushed the right with the nationalist platform that is anti-immigrant and anti-regulation.
For a party that has raised less than $ 200,000 in all 2023, it’s a turnaround since Mr. Farage became a leader last year. Driving a populist wave that felt from Germany to France to Washington, Mr. Farage catapulted his party from a political side pole in a well -funded force.
Mr. Farage arrived in Oswald’sThe exclusive club only for members in the London neighborhood of the Mayfair, on Tuesday and rushed out of a drop by a journalist’s feet. Oswald’s is owned by Robin Birley, the main donor reform.
The Duke of Marlboroug, Charles James Spencer-Churchill, followed soon behind. Arron Banks, who went bankrupt to the Brexita campaign, also attended Lady Victoria Hovey and Holly Valance, a former pop star and actor who is married to a reform cashier.
The party’s senior party official said the reform sold 90 tickets in the amount of £ 10,000 and £ 25,000 per piece. This would collect more than one million pounds ($ 1.25 million) for the party. The party official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss preliminary accounting.
The reform treasurer, billionaire of Nick Candy real estate, has committed to “providing more money for the party than any other in British political history,” and Mr. Farage opened openly by accepting donors of Mr. Trump donor. Technology powerful billionaire Elon Musk talked about donating money, Mr. Farage said.
Unlike the United States, there are no limitations in political donations in Britain. (Political consumption, however, is limited.) As the rumors of Mr Musk donation spread, some British politicians have raised the idea of restricting the donations of foreign campaigns.
Reform won a record five places in Parliament (Mr. Farage’s first victory after seven failed attempts) and 14 percent of the vote In last year’s national elections. It’s fun today survey in advance Conservatives and the closure of a gap with the management Labor Party.
Despite the profits of surveying and the sudden inflow of money, the reform has a steep hill to raise funds. The Labor has raised around £ 30m, and Tories around £ 48m in 2023, the last full year for which the data is available.
Mr. Farage built his political career over opposition to the European Union and immigration, helping to start voting on Brexit 2016. While polling stations Show that most Britons now believe that leaving the European Union was a mistake, that feelings did not harm Mr. Farage’s status.
His wealth seems to be encouraged by Mr. Trump’s victory. Reform claims In order to be the British Party that is the fastest growing, it has recently surpassed conservatives with almost 187,000 supporters who pay voluntary membership fees.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Farage have long been allies. Mr. Trump announced Mr. Farage’s election last summer, and Mr. Farage was beside him in Mar-a-lag on election night, because Mr. Trump was voted into the White House.
Many reform new key promises in his manifesto 2024 or Politics platform echoed by Mr. Trump’s actions during his first days on duty.
The reform promised to leave the key climatic goals and move the energy sector back to nafa and gas. The party wants to reduce taxes, reduce “wasteful” government consumption and increase military consumption. And he wants to abolish initiatives for diversity, equality and involvement.
Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Farage gathering against the ideology of “awakened” and “transgender indoctrination”.
One of the most ambitious promises in the reform is to remove the waiting lists of national health service in two years by investing in private health care and injecting £ 17 billion ($ 21.1 billion) into public health care – almost three times more than any other political party pledged.
But the Fiscal Studies Institute, an independent research group, said that the total tax and consumption of reform reforms were reforms “Don’t add” And it will cost billions more than it claimed.
Last week, Mr. Farage announced the return of Mr. Trump to power as “the greatest return to modern politics” and “joyful to watch.” Republicans, he Written in a Telegraph column“They discovered a whole new definition of conservatism.”
“Populism was the winner of the recent elections in America,” he wrote. “Who will say that it can’t be the same in the UK?”