Tory coffers take hard blows
Latest Electoral Commission data shows a dramatic slump in Tory coffers: the Party received £23.7m in 2011 compared to £43.1m in 2010. An almost 50% chop.
That 2010 figure does represent election war chest donations but the 2011 £23.7m figure is, proportionately, a bigger slump than Labour's 2011 income stream, which fell from £36.3m in 2010 to £31.3m last year.
