DUP received £425k for the Brexit referendum

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The wait is over and we now know how much the DUP received during the Brexit referendum and just who donated.

RTE reports that;

The Democratic Unionist Party has confirmed that it received £425,000 from a group of business people led by a Scottish Conservative party member and passed it on to help fund the UK pro-Brexit campaign.

The money was used to help finance an advertising campaign in Britain during the EU referendum.

The money was given to the DUP by the Constitutional Research Council, which is chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

This group the Constitutional Research Council is reported to be making moves to oppose a second Scottish referendum 

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