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So to get an idea of what he wants and whether he's loyal to a cause or a particular party, you have to read between the lines, or at least down the columns of the Electoral Commission declarations.

After this enthusiastic involvement with the Brexit Party, he doesn't appear in the Reform Party accounts again until 2025.

And what was he doing in the interim period?

Ben Habib was suspicious of Harbourne's generosity at the time.

After the 2019 general election, Christopher Harbourne stopped donating to the Brexit party and gave more than £1.5 million to the Conservatives.

In the months after Boris Johnson stepped down as prime minister, Christopher Harbourne donated a million pounds to him, the man who by then had become a backbench MP.

According to The Guardian, the pair dined together twice in Singapore that same month.

Christopher Harbourne later joined Boris Johnson on a trip to Ukraine.

Christopher Harborne's lawyers told the paper he had no expectation of personal gain when he donated the money.

But his proximity to power, even if it is party agnostic, is worth considering as we look to the future.

Harborne wants to see Brexit done?

Support the Brexit party.

Want to shape the Brexit deal?

Support the Conservatives as they thrash it out.

Which begs the question, in the year 2026, a decade on from Brexit, what is the vision of Britain that Harborne thinks reform can deliver?

And what are his other passion projects?

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