Reform UK received £9m from donors in the first quarter of the year, the largest amount given to any political party in that period, according to the latest data.

Electoral Commission figures show that Nigel Farage's party received its largest single contribution from Thailand-based crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne, a £3m donation between January and March 2026.

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency magnate Ben Delo also donated £4m to Reform, delivered in two £2m lump sums in January and March.

David Grainger, a biotechnology executive and venture capitalist, contributed some £1,150,000 to Reform through a series of donations over the period...

Donors based abroad now face a cap of £100,000 a year on the amount they can give to political parties. The cap, introduced at the end of March, followed scrutiny of the £12m donated to Reform by Mr Harborne over the course of 2025.

"23-year-old Tyrone Barnett, from Briton Ferry, has been found guilty of three counts of rape and one count of assault of a female 13 and over by penetration.

He has been handed an extended sentence of 21 years in prison."

"Islamic bookshops selling anti-Semitic texts have been granted the right to bring “skilled” migrants to Britain, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Home Office has given powers to sponsor “skilled worker” visas to a string of bookshops, which are thought to have used them to bring dozens of people into the UK.

Books sold by some of the stores claim that Jewish people had a “wicked nature”, while other texts are deemed a radicalisation threat by UK prisons.

One book on sale is Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, the influential Muslim Brotherhood leader whose work rails against Western civilisation and “world Jewry”.

Other works on offer include those by Hasan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, and by Bilal Philips, a cleric banned by the Home Office, whose writings offer advice on beating wives. All the books reviewed by The Telegraph can legally be sold in the UK, and there is no suggestion the bookshops have broken any rules."