The record shows SNP donations plummeting from £2.8 million in 2011 to £550,523 last year, but two donations of around £1m – from lottery winners Colin and Chris Weir and a bequest from the Makar Edwin Morgan – were extraordinary one-offs.
THE SNP has seen the biggest fall in donations in the latest figures released by the Electoral Commission, but only because it received two huge donations in the previous year.
The record shows SNP donations plummeting from £2.8 million in 2011 to £550,523 last year, but two donations of around £1m – from lottery winners Colin and Chris Weir and a bequest from the Makar Edwin Morgan – were extraordinary one-offs.
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