# Crypto entrepreneur makes record £36million donation to Reform UK

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/crypto-billionaire-donates-record-36million-to-reform-uk-because-he-wants-farages-party-to-have-a-fair-fight-at-the-general-election/
- Published: 2026-09-12T11:37:15+00:00
- Updated: 2026-09-12T22:04:25+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16124755/crypto-billionaire-donates-record-36million-Reform-UK-general-election.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Business, Crypto, Culture, Elections, Government, Politics, UK, World

## Key points

- Ben Delo gives Reform UK a record £36million donation.
- Reform faces police probe and sting allegations over donations.
- Reform has now outraised the Conservatives and Labour combined this year.

## Summary

Crypto entrepreneur Ben Delo has made a record £36million donation to Reform UK, the largest single gift to a British political party, as he seeks to give Nigel Farage's party a "fair fight" at the next general election. Delo, co-founder of the trading platform BitMEX, said the donation follows a difficult summer for Reform, arguing the party should spend less time fundraising and more time preparing for government. The gift comes as Reform faces a Scotland Yard investigation over alleged breaches of donation law, alongside claims from a Channel 4 undercover sting that senior party figures sought to bypass foreign donation rules.

The £36million surpasses the previous record of £10million, left to the Conservatives, and dwarfs Delo's earlier £8million in gifts to Reform, which had made him the party's second-largest donor behind fellow crypto figure Christopher Harborne. The donation means Reform has now raised five times more than the Conservatives and six times more than Labour this year. Delo, who pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering failures in the US in 2022 before being pardoned by Donald Trump, criticised Labour's new £100,000 cap on overseas donations as "election rigging". Farage said he was "honoured and humbled", while Labour accused Reform of being unable to "buy their way out of questions about sleaze".

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Crypto entrepreneur makes record £36million donation to Reform UK](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16124755/crypto-billionaire-donates-record-36million-Reform-UK-general-election.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [Sky News: Reform given record £36m donation from crypto billionaire](https://news.sky.com/story/reform-uk-given-record-36m-donation-from-crypto-billionaire-ben-delo-13584676)
- [The Guardian: Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/11/reform-uk-given-record-36m-donation-by-british-crypto-billionaire)

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