Crypto Billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne Give Reform UK £72M in Record Donations

BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo and crypto investor Christopher Harborne announced £36 million pledges to Reform UK on consecutive days in September 2026, taking the party’s two-day total to £72 million. Delo’s September 11 pledge was described as the largest single donation to a British political party, before Harborne said he would match it the following day.

The announced sum is substantially larger than the £15.49 million in donations and public funds that Reform UK reported accepting across the first two quarters of 2026. It also extends a funding relationship that was already visible in Electoral Commission records earlier in the year.

Delo and Harborne’s consecutive £36 million pledges

Sky News reported that Delo announced his £36 million donation on September 11, 2026. The outlet described it as the largest single donation made to a British political party.

Harborne announced a matching £36 million donation on September 12, bringing the value of the two publicly announced pledges to £72 million, according to The Independent. The back-to-back announcements made the second pledge significant not merely as another large contribution, but as an explicit match of the first.

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