New Donor Registered

Francesca Perrin has now been registered with the Electoral Commission as donating £90,000 to Labour Together on Valentines Day 2023. This brings her total amount of political donations to £1,115,000. Her previous donations have been to the Labour Party (including two £250k donations in 2021/2022), Wes Streeting and Stella Creasy. (Source)

She is a key patron of the New-New Labour and was specifically approached by Keir Starmer when staff at Labour HQ were facing redundancies in 2021.

Francesca Perrin is the daughter of billionaire Lord Sainsbury of the supermarket dynasty. She is a former advisor at the Prime Minister’s strategy unit and a board member of various philanthropic organisations. Her husband, William Perrin, was technology policy advisor and private secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Her father, Baron David Sainsbury, is a retired Labour Lord who was a key financial backer of Tony Blair and donated £16 million to the Party, as well as sizeable amounts to Progress Ltd.

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