{"id":25065,"date":"2011-10-03T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25065"},"modified":"2011-10-03T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:16:00","slug":"donations-from-finance-account-for-half-of-payments-to-tories-since-2010-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2011\/donations-from-finance-account-for-half-of-payments-to-tories-since-2010-general-election.html","title":{"rendered":"Donations from finance account for half of payments to Tories since 2010 general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The influence of the City over the Conservatives has been laid bare by new research showing that more than half of the Tory party&#8217;s donations since the general election have come from individuals and businesses working in finance.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds, financiers and private equity firms contributed more than a quarter of all the Tories&#8217; private donations \u2013 which this year poured in at a rate equal to \u00a31m a month \u2013 the study by the\u00a0Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/sep\/30\/city-conservatives-donations?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The influence of the City over the Conservatives has been laid bare by new research showing that more than half of the Tory party&#8217;s donations since the general election have come from individuals and businesses working in finance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25066,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions\/25066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}