Update: What do Reform’s record-setting donations mean for the party – and our politics

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In today’s newsletter: As Labour MPs scramble to realign later today around a bill that could stop donations like this in their tracks, a look at new game-changing donations to a party engulfed in financial scandals Good morning. The report also notes that Nigel Farage has a confirmed talent for upending the laws of political gravity, and this weekend has been no exception, as he declared himself “humbled” by two donations of £36m each from cryptocurrency tycoons Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne. I’d shoehorn a joke about buses in here but, honestly, this feels too consequential for that. Economy | Former chancellor George Osborne stated Britain’s economy had “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit – and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union would be the fastest route to recovery . Technology | Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to “slow the pace” of AI development. Amodei had cautioned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire internet” within a year. Sweden | With most of the votes counted, Sweden’s national election remained too close to call on Sunday night , with left-wing parties holding a lead of just a single seat as reported by a partial tally by the election authority. Ukraine | A train carrying Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus may have been the target of a Russian drone strike that hit a train engine near the Poland-Ukraine border, as reported by Ukrainian Railways. Travel | The air traffic control outage that caused thousands of flights to be grounded across the UK earlie

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