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Best for Britain Ltd gave Andrew Lewin £81,745.66 across four donations, Electoral Commission records show

Electoral Commission filings record four donations from Best for Britain Ltd to Andrew Lewin totalling £81,745.66, while the Register of Members' Financial Interests records a separate £27,564.43 donation from the same company to Lillian Jones.

·21 October 2026·2 min read
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Electoral Commission records show Best for Britain Ltd (company number 10436078) made four donations totalling £81,745.66 to MP Andrew Lewin between October 2025 and April 2026, while the Register of Members' Financial Interests separately records a £27,564.43 donation from the same company to MP Lillian Jones on 5 October 2026.

Total donated to Andrew Lewin
£81,745.66 across 4 donations (Electoral Commission)
Largest single donation
£35,332.32 accepted 1 January 2026
Donation to Lillian Jones
£27,564.43 registered 5 October 2026
Donor company number
10436078
Current person with significant control
Mr Peter Michael Russell Norris, notified 11 June 2024 (Companies House)

Electoral Commission records show Best for Britain Ltd, company number 10436078, made four donations to Andrew Lewin between October 2025 and April 2026 totalling £81,745.66. The donations were £34,469.82 accepted on 1 October 2025, £2,481.90 accepted on 6 November 2025 for travel, £35,332.32 accepted on 1 January 2026, and £9,461.62 accepted on 1 April 2026. The three largest donations are recorded as non-cash, for administration services; the fourth, smaller donation is recorded as non-cash for travel. All four list Andrew Lewin's donee type as MP and the donor status as a company.

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Separately, the Register of Members' Financial Interests shows Lillian Jones, Labour MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, registered a donation of £27,564.43 from Best for Britain Limited on 5 October 2026, categorised as donations and other support for activities as an MP.

Companies House records show Best for Britain Limited was incorporated on 19 October 2016, under the earlier names UK-EU Open Policy Resolution Limited and UK-EU Open Policy Limited. Its current person with significant control, notified on 11 June 2024, is Mr Peter Michael Russell Norris, who holds that status individually, as a trust and as a firm. He succeeded Lord Nigel Kim Darroch, who held significant control from 27 April 2022 until 11 June 2024.

Neither the Electoral Commission records nor the parliamentary register state why Best for Britain Ltd made donations to both Andrew Lewin and Lillian Jones, or how the two sets of filings relate to one another.

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