With less than a month to go until the European elections, and with Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party surging in the polls, pressure is continuing to build on Change UK – The Independent Group, whose performance has been far less impressive than its rival.
Seeking to change that, was Change UK MP Mike Gapes, who went on Iain Dale’s LBC radio show to sell his party to the public. The former Labour MP started off strongly, by attacking the source of the Brexit Party’s funds, saying:
‘Well it’ll be interesting to see the huge amounts of funding Nigel Farage has had from various dubious sources.’
Unfortunately, it was quickly pointed out to Gapes that the Brexit Party had already revealed that it received one large donation of £200,000, but was otherwise funded by 90,000 donations of £25.
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