{"id":45013,"date":"2014-11-14T06:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45013"},"modified":"2014-11-14T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:43:34","slug":"hedge-fund-donations-help-tories-raise-twice-as-much-as-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2014\/hedge-fund-donations-help-tories-raise-twice-as-much-as-labour.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund donations help Tories raise twice as much as Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The Conservatives have received double the donations of Labour and 60 times more than Ukip over the past three months, including more than \u00a31m from hedge funds and \u00a3150,000 from the wife of a former Russian government minister who bought the right to play tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from the Electoral Commission, the Conservatives received a total of \u00a36.8m between July and September, much of it from people connected to the world of finance. In the same period, Labour brought in \u00a33.2m, of which \u00a31.3m was from trade unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/nov\/13\/hedge-fund-donations-tories-labour\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The Conservatives have received double the donations of Labour and 60 times more than Ukip over the past three months, including more than \u00a31m from hedge funds and \u00a3150,000 from the wife of a former Russian government minister [&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-45013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45013","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=45013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45017,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45013\/revisions\/45017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}