The £30k donation that bankrolled Wes Streeting | Exclusive

By The Telegraph

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Wes Streeting was bankrolled by a think tank linked to one of the world’s most notorious fraudsters, The Telegraph can disclose. Mr Streeting, who is now the Defence Secretary, accepted £37,000 in donations from Labour for the Long Term (LLT) in 2022 despite significant concerns among party chiefs over the source of the funds. Just one month before LLT made its first donation, its founder, David Lawrence, had accepted a £500,000 gift from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency billionaire, who was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in jail for fraud after stealing billions of dollars from his customers. Senior Labour sources claimed that other shadow ministers had been advised not to accept donations from Mr Lawrence, who later stood down as a parliamentary candidate after discussion about his connections to Bankman-Fried, known as the “Crypto King”. It is understood Labour has never raised any suspicions about the source of Mr Streeting’s funding with the Electoral Commis

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