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After two historic donations from crypto billionaires, Reform UK are looking “very financially secure”, says Fraser Nelson on Substack. But they may end up “politically weaker”. The fact that Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne were willing to hand over £36m apiece is likely to raise questions about precisely what it is they are hoping for in return. Reform has promised they will never receive trad donor baubles like knighthoods or peerages. But it’s worth noting that the party has a detailed Crypto Finance Bill “ready to be enacted on day one”, which includes slashing tax rates on crypto profits to 10% and establishing a national Bitcoin Reserve Fund. Reform has nothing like this kind of policy detail for any other area of government – it doesn’t even have a spokesman on defence. What kind of political party is that?

I have good news for those freaking out that “Delo and Harborne can buy the next election”, says John Rentoul in The Independent: “They cannot.” Even very large sums of money only make a difference at the margin, and sometimes not at all. Remain spent twice as much as Leave in the Brexit campaign; Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump $580m to $340m in 2016. In 1997, James Goldsmith paid for a Eurosceptic outfit called the Referendum Party to outspend Labour and the Tories put together, through a massive advertising campaign that included posting a VHS tape to five million households. “It won 2.6% of the vote.” There’s nothing any donor can do about the “clash of egos” at the top of Reform, which is already the party other voters most want to keep out – many Tories would vote Labour to stiff Farage, and vice versa. “All the money in the world cannot change that.”