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Reform UK is preparing for a new reduction in funds, since next week there are several former conservative donors for a dinner worth £ 25,000 per capita in Mayfair.
Party chairman Nigel Farage and treasurer Nick Candy hope to collect more than a million pounds in Mayfair through the event on Tuesday in the private member club Oswald’s in Mayfair, said party officials.
It is expected that people who have donated hundreds of thousands of pounds together in the past to take part in dinner reform This will increase the pressure on Tory boss Kemi Badenoch after leaving her party several times.
The tickets for the event cost between £ 10,000 and £ 25,000, and the event is expected to attract up to 90 people, said a person familiar with the arrangements.
A former Tory donor who wanted to participate, the Financial Times said that he decided on a 25,000 pound ticket instead of a cheaper option to examine how the party “treats older donors and whether they respect them” .
The person who has donated considerable sums and does not want to be mentioned by name said: “The interest in the support of the Tories is at a historical low. The interest in supporting the reform is a bit larger, but the jury is not yet sure whether it will be successful or not. ”
The person added that the event understood that the event was an attempt for further fundraisers of this kind, and added: “Reform would like to see if something like this works.”
Party officials are also preparing for a major meeting in summer – a so -called reform -proof – from which they hope that it will attract thousands of paying visitors.
The summer event is “a celebration of all the incredible progress that made the reform and everything we and our supporters will achieve together in the coming years,” said another high -ranking representative of the party.
The two events are part of a campaign to collect dozens of millions of pounds for the party in order to increase their attractiveness for this year’s local elections and later with regard to the next parliamentary elections this decade.
According to an average of the latest surveys, reform is 24 percent, one point over the Tories and three points under Labor, which fueled concern in the ruling party and the largest opposition.
The former Tory donor said he hoped that Farage would “combine the two currents” by putting together the conservatives and the reform parties. The two parties have excluded such a step or an election pact.
But a supply of cash in the health insurers of reform would be an upswing for the party after the technology billionaire Elon Musk expressed his reservations about a donation considerable donation In addition in the past few weeks.
Reform insiders say that an increase in donations is the latest sign of the weakness of the challenge party SwingAfter Farage and Candy had traveled to Washington at the beginning of this week to take office from Donald Trump and put their connections to the Maga Republicans.
In the local elections in May, however, Farage’s party faces a major test to prove that their support base is not just a paper phenomenon. Last spring, the party set up candidates for one of seven for election and won only two council members in total.
This year, party insiders hope for far more important growth, including two newly created mayoral offices: Greater Lincolnshire, where they will compete against a conservative opponent with the former Tory Andrea Jkyns, and Hull and East Yorkshire, where Labor is also in the race.
Candy, who had accumulated a fortune on the real estate market and had previously donated hundreds of thousands to the Tories, joined the reform last month and promised to donate the party at least £ 1 million of his own money. Since then, he has been bragging about at least £ 40 million for the reform.
A Tory spokesman said: “The conservatives are under a new leadership and are working hard to renew and restore the British people’s trust.”
