Here are the main sources of Labour Together’s funds

As Labour Together has been in the news a lot in recent months, here’s a breakdown of who’s been funding it.

We focused on Electoral Commission data for donations to Labour Together over the value of £40,000. And the following individuals have given the biggest donations:

1. Martin Taylor
2. Gary Lubner
3. David Sainsbury and Francesca Perrin
4. Trevor Chinn
5. Stuart Roden

Labour Together itself has donated over £1.1m in total to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party since late 2023.

1. Martin Taylor (£4m+)

The data shows that key Labour Together donor Martin Taylor has given over £4m to the organisation since 2015. The biggest donation was £800,000, which the Electoral Commission noted as “accepted” on 28/03/2024.

Taylor also donated an extra £3.5m to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in early 2024. And he had already given Starmer himself a direct donation of £95,000 on 10/03/2020.

MPs that Taylor has given significant donations to include former Labour Together secretary Josh Simons (£47,000 on 21/11/2024), Dan Jarvis, Angela Rayner, Shabana Mahmood, and Lucy Powell. And he’s donated significant sums to the following Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs):

• Streatham and Croydon North, the CLP of former Labour Together director Steve Reed.
• Finchley and Golders Green, whose MP is Sarah Sackman. She has also received thousands of pounds of donations from Labour Together itself and Labour Together donors Trevor Chinn and Richard Greer (who, along with Labour Together and fellow donors, has also backed David Lammy and Angela Rayner).
• Chipping Barnet, whose MP is Dan Tomlinson. He has received thousands of pounds from Labour Together and its donors, including Chinn and Lubner.
• Aldershot, whose MP is Alex Baker. She also got £10,000 from Labour Together.
• Greenwich and Woolwich, whose MP is Matthew Pennycook.

The Electoral Commission has recorded over £9.3m worth of political donations from Taylor in total. These include £591,800 that he gave the Labour Party under Ed Miliband’s leadership.

2. Gary Lubner (£1.8m+)

Gary Lubner has given Labour Together over £1.8m since 2023. The biggest donation of £250,000 came on 06/10/2023.

Lubner gave Starmer’s Labour £4.5m before the 2024 election, including a massive single payment of £2.2m on 30/05/2023.

Lubner’s biggest donation to a specific politician seems to have been £28,500 on 30/01/2026 for new MP Miatta Fahnbulleh. Fahnbulleh had previously been of interest to Labour Together, serving as a “Policy Fellow” there. Lubner had already given her £5,000 back in 2024 too.

Lubner has also joined Labour Together and fellow donor Stuart Roden in donating thousands of pounds to new MP Mike Tapp.

In total, Lubner has made over £9.9m worth of political donations, according to the Electoral Commission.

3. David Sainsbury (£1.2m+) and Francesca Perrin

A political donor of over £47m in total, David Sainsbury has given more than £1.2m to Labour Together since 2024. Having donated a massive single sum of £8m to the Liberal Democrats in 2019, his biggest donation to the Labour Party – of £3m – came on 06/04/2023.

Sainsbury gave his biggest individual donation of £44,000 to MP Darren Jones on 26/09/2025. Labour Together had previously given Jones over £50,000 in early 2024.

Sainsbury’s daughter Francesca Perrin became a director of Labour Together Limited in 2024. She has given the organisation at least £310,000 since 2023. She also gave Starmer’s Labour a massive donation of £1m on 01/12/2023, following three more donations to the party totalling another £1m between 2021 and 2022.

Perrin’s biggest donations to individual MPs went to Shabana Mahmood and Wes Streeting, who each got £50,000 donations from her in late 2025.

4. Trevor Chinn (£400,000+)

While Trevor Chinn’s biggest individual donation to Labour Together was £50,000 on 29/01/2021, he also consistently sent it donations of over £10,000. In total, he has donated well over £400,000 to the organisation over the years. And all his political donations to date easily surpass £1m.

Chinn was a director of Labour Together Limited from 2016 to 2024. As the Canary has reported, he also:

made donations to Tony Blair (while MP), Ruth Smeeth, Tom Watson, Rachel Reeves, Ian Austin, and Wes Streeting

Fellow directors during Chinn’s tenure included MPs Lisa Nandy, Steve Reed, and Jon Cruddas.

Nandy has received thousands from Chinn and fellow Labour Together donor Simon Tuttle. Reed, meanwhile, has received thousands from Taylor, Chinn, Labour Together, along with massive support from major Labour and Tory donor Lisbet Rausing (also a key backer of Ed Miliband). Cruddas also got thousands from Chinn and Taylor.

By 2024, Labour MPs had received around £200,000 from Chinn, including £50,000 for Keir Starmer’s 2020 leadership campaign. After Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner are the next biggest recipients of Chinn’s cash, receiving at least £25,000 each.

Chinn has also funded new MP Damien Egan (as has Gary Lubner).

5. Stuart Roden (£100,000+)

Stuart Roden gave Labour Together £100,000 on 31/01/2025. He has made over £1.6m of political donations since 2023, primarily to Starmer’s Labour Party.

In 2024, he gave four CLPs £5,000 each. These were:

• Peterborough CLP, whose new MP since 2024 has been Andrew Pakes. Also in 2024, Pakes received £15,000 from Gary Lubner and £10,000 from Labour Together.
• John Mann‘s former CLP of Bassetlaw, where his wife Jo White has been an MP since 2024. Trevor Chinn also donated over £3,000 to Bassetlaw CLP between 2023 and 2024, with White declaring £8,350. Chinn had previously donated thousands to Mann when he was an MP too.
• The North East Somerset and Hanham constituency of Dan Norris. Chinn donated to his campaign too, as did fellow Labour Together donor Ecotricity Group Ltd. Other big donations for Norris came from former Tony Blair and Gordon Brown adviser Jonathan Mendelsohn (owner of Red Capital) and former David Miliband backer David Claydon. Norris remains an MP despite his 2025 suspension from Labour.
• Midlothian North and Musselburgh CLP, which also got a £5,000 donation from Labour Together Limited in 2024 and £3,000 from Trevor Chinn between 2023 and 2024. Kirsty McNeill has been the Midlothian MP since 2024. Other donations to McNeill included £15,000 from Gary Lubner and £3,000 from fellow Labour Together donor William Reeves.

Other Labour Together donors

William Reeves has given Labour Together at least £90,000 since 2024. He has also given the Liberal Democrats over £200,000 since 2023, along with just £25,000 to Starmer’s Labour.

Smaller donors have included Fiona Mactaggart, Ian Laming, William Perrin, Daniel Luhde-Thompson, Nick Marple, Ecotricity Group Ltd, Clive Hollick, Simon Tuttle, Paul Myners, Richard Greer, and Sean Wadsworth.

Current or former Labour MPs mentioned in this article

In this article, we have mentioned the following current or former Labour MPs who have received significant funding from Labour Together or its donors.

Government ministers

• Dan Jarvis
• Darren Jones
• David Lammy
• Shabana Mahmood
• Kirsty McNeill
• Ed Miliband
• Lisa Nandy
• Matthew Pennycook
• Lucy Powell
• Angela Rayner
• Steve Reed
• Rachel Reeves
• Sarah Sackman
• Keir Starmer
• Wes Streeting
• Mike Tapp
• Dan Tomlinson

Current Labour MPs

• Alex Baker
• Damien Egan
• Miatta Fahnbulleh
• Andrew Pakes
• Jo White

Current Lords

• Ian Austin
• John Mann
• Ruth Smeeth
• Tom Watson

Former Labour MPs

• Jon Cruddas
• Dan Norris

By Ed Sykes

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