A party official said that the British Popular Party, the United Kingdom, is expected to bring more than $ 1.25 million in collecting bright donations on Tuesday, an extraordinary amount of a party that was six months ago on the sidelines of national policy.
The great American event was the first major commercial association since Nigel Farraj took over as a party leader and ideological ally, Donald J. Trump, to the White House.
Mr. Farage wants to reshape the British province, just as Mr. Trump was in the United States. He pushed the movement to the right through a national anti -immigrant platform and combating organization.
For a collection party less than $ 200,000 in 2023, the shift since Mr. Farage became its leader last year. While riding a popular wave, I felt from Germany to France to Washington, Mr. Faraj prepared his party from a political side offer to a well -funded force.
Mr. Farage arrived at Oswald’s, a exclusive club for members only in the Mayfair neighborhood in London on Tuesday and rushed to get out of the spray, after a summary of the journalists. Oswald is owned by Robin Perley, the main donor of repair.
The Duke of Marlburo follows Charles James Spencer Chirchel, shortly after. Arron Banks, who funded the British Union’s exit campaign, also attended Mrs. Victoria Herve and Huli Vallas, the former pop star and actor married to the reformist treasurer.
A senior party official said that the reform sold 90 tickets ranging from 10,000 pounds and £ 25,000 each. This would win more than a million pounds ($ 1.25 million) for the party. The party official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the initial accounting.
The Fund of Reform, Real Estate Billionaire Nick Candy, pledged to “secure more money for the party more than anything else in British political history,” and Mr. Farage has played publicly accepting donations from donors to Mr. Trump. Technology singer discussed billionaire Elon Musk to donate money, Mr. Faraj He said.
Unlike the United States, there are no limits to political donations in Britain. (However, political spending was crowned.) With the spread of rumors about the donation of a player from Mr. Musk, some British politicians sparked the idea of donating the foreign campaign.
The reform won the size of five seats in Parliament (the first victory for Mr. Faraj after seven failed attempts) 14 percent of the vote In the national elections for the past year. Today, the party is Voting From conservatives and closing the gap with the ruling Labor Party.
Despite the gains and the sudden flow of criticism, the reform has a brave hill to raise funds for climbing. The Labor Party collected about 30 million pounds and a real pounds of about 48 million pounds in 2023, which is the last full year. The data is available.
Mr. Faraj built his political career over the opposition of the European Union and Immigration, which helped lead to lead a British exit from the European Union in 2016. Opinion polls He showed that the majority of Britons now believe that leaving the European Union was wrong, and that the feelings did not harm the situation of Mr. Faraj.
His wealth appears to be analogy with Mr. Trump’s victory. repair Claims To be a fastest growing party in Britain, it has recently exceeded conservatives with nearly 187,000 supporters who pay voluntary membership fees.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Faraj have long been allies. Mr. Trump purchased the election of Mr. Faraj last summer, and Mr. Faraj was next to him in Mar Lago on the election night, where Mr. Trump was voted at the White House.
Many of the new major pledges of reform in its statement for 2024, or the policy platform, resonated the actions of Mr. Trump during his first days to his post.
The reform pledged to abandon the main climate targets and the energy sector fluctuated again towards oil and gas. The party wants to reduce taxes, reduce government spending and increase military spending. He wants to cancel the diversity of initiatives, shares and inclusion.
Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Faraj gathered against an ideology “wake up” and “sexually converts”.
One of the most ambitious reform promises is to eliminate waiting lists for national health service within two years by investing in private health care and injecting 17 billion pounds (21.1 billion dollars) in public health service – nearly three times more than any other political party pledge .
But the Institute of Financial Studies, an independent research group, said that the comprehensive spending plans for reform “Don’t add” It will cost billions more than the claim.
Last week, Mr. Faraj expressed the return of Mr. Trump to power as “the greatest return in modern politics” and “tired of viewing.” Republicans, is Books in a column for tullgreem“Discover a completely new definition of the province.”
“The populism was the winner of the recent elections in America,” he wrote. “Who says he cannot be himself in the United Kingdom as well?”