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THE tiny Socialist Alliance received one of the largest single donations given to any political party in the final quarter of 2014.
Electoral Commission figures on party funding released yesterday included a six-figure sum which was received by Socialist Alliance in August, but only registered several months later.
The party was gifted £101,166 as part of a legacy from a Mr Archie James Dilloway.
The amount is more than the SNP or Plaid Cymru registered in the last three months of 2014.
At the alliance’s 2014 AGM last September, members agreed to hand the money to the Trades Union and Socialist Coalition (Tusc) to pay for the deposits of its general election candidates.
Socialist Alliance was formed amid disaffection with Labour in 1992 but collapsed in 2005 without having made major electoral victories.
The group re-registered with the Electoral Commission in 2007 and is now part of the Alliance for Green Socialism.
