Media contributions
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Title Farage’s Reform in Line for Millions of Pounds in Taxpayer ‘Short Money’ Funding If It Picks Up Seats in Election Media name/outlet Byline Times Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/07/24 Description Dr Louise Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester who conducted the research with Byline Times, said: “Apart from potential battles with the Liberal Democrats, who may feel entitled to extra allocations if the seats are very close with the Conservatives, it will be hard to be in official opposition with a small number of MPs.
“Short Money will be really important to ensure the opposition can actually function as opposition. So if the lower estimate is correct, the Conservatives will be in a much weaker position than Labour as the official opposition, because they just won’t have the same resources.
“They’ll be employing far fewer staff in the party’s Westminster office. A sort of parallel here is that, when the Greens lost a lot of Short Money funding, they had to resort to crowdfunding to make sure they still had the capacity to keep [their one MP] Caroline Lucas going.
“Obviously, any Short Money is a gain in the sense that they aren’t currently getting it. But they will struggle.”URL https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/01/farages-reform-in-line-for-millions-of-pounds-in-taxpayer-short-money-funding-if-it-picks-up-seats-in-election/ Persons Louise Thompson