Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has received a £9m donation from Christopher Harborne, a leading cryptocurrency, defence and aviation-fuel investor who previously bankrolled the Brexit party.

Harborne gave the record donation to Reform over the summer in a boost to the party’s finances before its autumn conference.

This year Reform became the first political party to accept donations in crypto but the £9m was made in cash rather than digital currency.

Harborne, who has a low profile and describes himself as intensely private, was previously one of the single biggest donors in politics when he gave more than £10m in tranches to Farage’s Brexit party to fund its 2019 election campaign.

He subsequently donated £1m to the office of Boris Johnson after the former prime minister left Down

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