EU referendum: Nearly £16m in donations to registered campaigners have been reported to the Electoral Commission
The Leave camp has raised more than the Remain camp overall so far in the EU referendum.
Almost £16m in donations to registered campaigners in the EU referendum has been reported in the first pre-poll donations and loans report, of which more than half was donated to groups backing Brexit.
Some £15,639,146 in donations was reported between 1 February to 21 April this year. Of the 70 registered campaigners on the 28 April when reports were due, just twelve had to report.
Overall Remain had raised £7,458,712, while Leave raised £8,180,425.
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On the Remain side, Britain Stronger in Europe had £6.9m donated to it, while Vote Leave was given £2.8m.
Vote Leave and Britain Stronger In Europe are the officially designated campaign groups which are entitled to spend up to £7m. Leave.EU and Grassroots Out lost out on the designation to Vote Leave after months of bitter in-fighting on the Leave side.
Leave.EU raised £3.2m from donations, while Grassroots Out was given more than £2m.
The largest donor was Peter Hargreaves, who gave Leave.EU the entire £3.2m. Hargreaves was one of more than 100 executives from Britain's financial services industry to sign a letter backing Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
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Hargreaves was followed by Lord David Sainsbury, who donated more than £2.7m in total. Some £2.5m of that went to Britain Stronger in Europe, though he also gave to the European Movement of the UK, Michelle Ovens and Scientists for EU.
Morgan Stanley donated £250,000 to Britain Stronger in Europe, while Citigroup gave the same amount. Airbus, PwC and Eurostar all gave just over £7,500 to the same campaign.
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan also pledged £500,000 each, though outside of the reporting period.
Despite Leave having raised more overall, Vote Leave have said they are in a "David vs Goliath fight".
Former Labour foreign secretary Lord Owen said: "The EU works in the interests of the elite – the one per cent – so it is entirely unsurprising to find that the campaign to keep us in the Union is financed by big banks.
"These figures show again that we are in a David vs Goliath fight, but it is one we are determined to win – for the good of the British people."