Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations – UK politics live

Party leader claims proposed new retrospective laws are unfair and Reform would retaliate with a crackdown on union funding if elected Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, was doing a media round on behalf of the government this morning. Asked about claims that trade unions donations to Labour are similar to single, multi-million pound donations to Reform UK from cryptocurrency billionaires (see 9.09am), Reynolds claimed it was wrong to view them as equivalent. He told Times Radio:When we talk, or people talk about union donations, that is not one entity. That is tens of thousands of ordinary people choosing to make