REFORM UK has gained a second bumper donation of £36million, making a total of £72m in the space of just 24 hours.

Nigel Farage’s party announced it had been given a record-breaking £36million, the largest in British political history, on Friday evening with the money coming from Brit cryptocurrency billionaire Ben Delo.

Reform UK annual conference - Day 3Nigel Farage’s Reform party has been gifted a second bumper donation of £36m Credit: EPA

Now another billionaire Reform backer, Christopher Harborne, has matched that sum

It takes the total amount raised by Reform this year close to £90 million.