Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic found to have engaged in online bullying

Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

Reform UK’s new mega-donor Ben Delo gave a £350,000 loan to a conservative writer fighting a legal case in which a judge later found she had engaged in online bullying and regrettable conduct with a “whiff of threat and antisemitism”.

Nina Power and her friend, the writer Daniel DC Miller, brought the legal action for defamation against the performance artist Luke Turner, who they had accused of falsely calling them antisemitic. At the same time, Turner brought a counter-claim against the pair accusing them of harassment.

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Source: Guardian Politics