Anna Isaac

Yeah, so Christopher Harborne is a billionaire.

He's spending most of his time in Thailand these days, but he is British born.

He's acquired much of his wealth through a 12% stake in a cryptocurrency called Tether.

And he has for a long time, since at least 2019, been a big backer of the Brexit party, which eventually became, as we know now, the Reform UK party.

So he's a longstanding supporter of it.

He has also given money, it's important to note, to the Conservative Party previously.

And he's made a gift to the office of Boris Johnson before he made a million pound gift to that office.

So he's a well-established political donor in the UK.

Yes, that's correct.

Yes.

He has lots of different business interests around the world, but he is he lives in Thailand.

He for business purposes there and I think for citizenship purposes took a Thai name.

So, yes.

So, yeah, that's where he's based, even though a lot of his interests politically seems to reside in the UK.

Yes.

So so what was already known about Harbour in recent years is that he was the he's made the biggest donation of a living donor to a political party.

So he'd given nine million to reform in a single go.

He then gave additional some.

So taking its total to 12 million.

That's in 2025.