Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won a bumper £9m donation in August. Lia Toby/Getty

Reform UK has received the largest ever political donation from a single living person as Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne injected £9m into the party.

Reform’s precursor organisation, the Brexit Party, previously received donations from Harborne in 2019 and 2020 but it had not yet received donations directly from the billionaire .

His £9m donation in August was nearly double the level the Conservative Party received in total donations over the third quarter of the year.

Labour meanwhile received some £1.9m over the three-month period, according to electoral commission data from Thursday.

The next biggest donation from an individual to a political party was £1m sent from game entrepreneur Jeremy

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