FATCAT DONORS GIVE £26M TO PARTY

Jacob Rees- Mogg’s rebel European Research Group want her to quit as Prime Minister after local elections on May 2.

In return they will vote for her deal so she can hit her March 29 deadline for us to leave the EU.

A Tory leadership contest would take place over the summer with the ERG campaigning for their champion Boris Johnson.

And the new PM will be crowned at the Tory conference in Manchester in September.

Brexiteers think they can hold Mrs May to ransom because she cares more about getting Brexit on her terms than being PM.

An insider told the Sunday People: “The PM believes in getting things done and there’s nothing bigger than delivering Brexit.

“If she can pull that off she’ll have her legacy. And she’ll feel her work is done.”

EU negotiators are adamant they will not reopen the withdrawal agreement which contains FATCAT donors were behind more than half the £52million given to the Tories since 2017.

Analysis by Labour reveals the cash from the secretive Leader’s Group – an elite network of donors who pay £50,000-a-year to dine with top Tory ministers.

The billionaires, business tycoons and hedge fund bosses have access to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers such as Chancellor Philip Hammond, as well as leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid.

Of those dining with Tory ministers, super-rich donors working in finance donated £9.1million to the party.

Jon Trickett, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, said: “The Tory Party is closer to millionaires than to the hard working millions. This list reveals the shocking truth.

“It confirms some voices are heard more than others – and that money talks.”

Top donors include the Bamford Family, who own JCB and also donated to Vote Leave. They have given the party £2.8million since 2017.

Sir Mick Davis, the boss of Tory HQ knighted by

David Cameron, has put in £2.3million.

They also received £491,000 from Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister.