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Farage’s Reform UK gets biggest donation ever from crypto billionaire: Reports

Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.Ben Delo, a British crypto billionaire, gave 36 million pounds ($49 million) to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the biggest donation ever made to a British political party, the DPA and other media reported on Saturday.Delo, who co-founded the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, said he had given the money to…

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Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.Ben Delo, a British crypto billionaire, gave 36 million pounds ($49 million) to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the biggest donation ever made to a British political party, the DPA and other media reported on Saturday.

Delo, who co-founded the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, said he had given the money to ensure a “fair fight” at the polls.

Farage said: “I am honored and humbled that Ben Delo has shown such confidence in Reform. … Ben knows that we are the only party that can turn the country around and reverse Britain’s decline.”

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