A cryptocurrency investor has made a 9 million pound ($12 million) donation to the British political party Reform, according to a filing with the Electoral Commission on Thursday.
The donation by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based entrepreneur who has invested in stablecoin issuer Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, has been described by various outlets as the largest single donation to a British political party by a living person, according to a Financial Times report. The outright record £10 million was a donation by Lord John Sainsbury to the Conservative Party in his will in 2022.
Harborne previously donated to Reform, led by Nigel Farage in 2019 when it was called the Brexit Party, and has also donated to the Conservatives over the years.
The donation meant that Reform received more in donations than any other UK party in the third quarter of 2025.
Nigel Farage, whose party has led the polls for most of this year, has tried to woo the crypto vote by accepting cryptocurrency donations and promising to establish a bitcoin reserve if he is elected to the government.
Harborne’s donation was cash, not crypto.
