Labour's campaign war chest swelled in the last week as trade unions backed Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.

Labour received the most in donations, raking in £3,488,000 in weekly regulated period.

In the first week the party raised just £218,500, but have seen a reversal of fortunes as the trade unions funded the campaign.

The single biggest donation was £3 million from Unite the Union to Labour, with another significant donation from communications union the CWU.

It also comes after the party confirmed it had taken in £2.5million in small donations yesterday.

Conservatives were a not distant second after raising £2,967,000.

The Brexit Party was third with £2,250,000.

In the first week of the campaign the Conservatives raised £5.7m – which was 87% of registered donations in that period.

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£9,073,750 in donations to political parties were reported to the Electoral Commission in the second weekly pre-poll report.

The Liberal Democrats received £251,000, Plaid Cymru £70,000, the Greens £37,750 and the SNP £10,000.

Prior to the election on 12 December, registered political parties must submit four weekly reports setting out the donations and loans over £7,500 that they have received between 6 November and 3 December 2019.

Two further reports must be submitted after polling day for the period 4 December to 12 December 2019.

Total donations over £7,500 received by parties during the reporting period from 13 to 19 November:

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