Labour holds No 10 drinks party for donors amid growing calls for donations cap

The Guardian Politics Wednesday 16 September 2026, 16:16 UTC By Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar 1 min read

Key Points

Labour has also increased fundraising from members in response to Reform’s £72m donations from crypto billionairesLabour has hosted major party donors at No 10 for a drinks reception, as the party comes under growing pressure from MPs and unions to consider a donations cap. The Guardian understands that high-level donors, including business leaders and philanthropists, were hosted by cabinet ministers in Downing Street for an evening reception on Tuesday. Donors from the party’s Rose Network...

Labour has also increased fundraising from members in response to Reform’s £72m donations from crypto billionaires

Labour has hosted major party donors at No 10 for a drinks reception, as the party comes under growing pressure from MPs and unions to consider a donations cap.

The Guardian understands that high-level donors, including business leaders and philanthropists, were hosted by cabinet ministers in Downing Street for an evening reception on Tuesday. Donors from the party’s Rose Network give thousands of pounds a year to the party.

Labour (ORG) Guardian (ORG) Downing Street (LOCATION) Rose Network (ORG)

Originally published by The Guardian Politics Read original →

victim to history’s first known autonomous artificial intelligence cyberattack said the government should do more to require transparency by advanced AI models — and ensure that their developers are held liable for harms their products cause. That doesn’t mean Congress needs to create a raft of new regulations prohibiting malicious cyberattacks, Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clem Delangue said Wednesday during the POLITICO Decoded Summit in D.C. But he said companies whose products inflict...

Politico EU 13m ago

No matter how deranged and delusional your podcast is, Liz Truss can go further

In the Trusster’s latest appearance, she says Blair and Brown had a plot to dismantle civilisation and the Tories were part of the woke establishmentSome things you can set your watch by. Like every time small boats are in the news, the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, will manoeuvre himself in front of a camera to suggest that all male migrants are either murderers or rapists. But some things feel older than time itself.

The Guardian Politics 17m ago

SEE IT: El-Sayed can't shake one question before meeting with Dem power brokers

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed broke bread with the Democratic establishment in Washington, D.C., but there’s one thing he can’t escape: his connection to a controversial figure who helped elevate his campaign. And his connection to the controversial Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker is something he didn’t want to talk about. When asked by Fox News Digital if he would continue to campaign with Piker, who has been almost universally condemned by...

Fox News 19m ago

Labour holds No 10 drinks party for donors amid growing calls for donations cap

Related Stories

Reform Wales loses leader and MS within five minutes

Hugging Face CEO: Advanced AI models require new transparency mandates

No matter how deranged and delusional your podcast is, Liz Truss can go further

SEE IT: El-Sayed can't shake one question before meeting with Dem power brokers