Patrick Barbour

Patrick Barbour is a trustee of Civitas, and was one of the three founders of Reform. He is also the author of the position paper for the Taxpayers Alliance's 'Better Government Campaign' where he argued that 'We need serious structural reform of Government'.Gabriel Milland, Politicians can't make our lives better say voters, Daily Express, 30-January-2007Patrick Barbour, Patrick Barbour: Political management has failed the victims of C-Diff, Conservative Home, 18-October-2007 Barbour has also made donations to the Stockholm NetworkStockholm Network, Annual Report 2006-07, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010Stockholm Network, Annual Report 2007-08, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010 and is a business supporter of Global Vision.Global Vision Support from Business, accessed 18 November 2010 He is a trustee of the Politics and Economics Research Trust which is the research wing of the Taxpayers' Alliance.Politics & Economics Research Trust, Charity Commission Report, Charity Commission, Accessed 13-April-2011 
According to his profile on the Young Britons' Foundation website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies Barbour Index Plc and Microgen Plc.Patrick Barbour, YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour, Young Britons' Foundation, Accessed 13-April-2011 He is also a founding director of Barbour Logic.Barbour Logic, Founding Directors, Barbour Logic, Accessed 13-April-2011 He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.The Independent, Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m, the Independent, 13-March-1999
Barbour has been politically active on the Eurosceptic right of the Conservative Party since at least the early nineties when he helped to fund the Bruges Group.Patrick Robertson, The patriotic 'pipsqueak' of Bruges, The Sunday Times, 16-June-1991 In 2010 the Sunday Times reported that Barbour had made donations to UKIP through Global Britain.Solvej Krause; Daniel Foggo; Claire Newell, There's more than one way to hide a donor, The Sunday Times, 4-April-2010 In March 2011 Barbour co-signed a letter entitled HS2 Cannot be Justified arguing against the proposed HS2 high-speed rail line.
As of 20 April 2016, the Electoral Commission recorded Barbour as having donated £500,000 to Vote Leave, the official flag bearer of the 'leave' vote in the UK's referendum on EU membership. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 12 May 2016
==Donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to 
 
30/06/2005 
Patrick Barbour
£7,000.00
Conservative and Unionist Party 
 
 
30/09/2010 
Patrick Barbour
£50,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
30/09/2010 
Patrick Barbour
£62,500.00 
UKIP 
 
 
30/09/2010 
Patrick Barbour
£37,500.00 
UKIP 
 
 
02/02/2011 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£20,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
02/03/2015 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£20,000.00 
UKIP 
 
 
06/04/2016 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£10,000.00 
WAGTV Limited 
 
 
20/04/2016 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£500,000.00 
Vote Leave 
 
 
23/05/2016 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£30,000.00 
The Bruges Group 
 
 
26/05/2016 
Mr Patrick Barbour
£20,000.00 
WAGTV Limited 
 
==Affiliations==
Civitas | Stockholm Network | Global Vision | Reform | Politics and Economics Research Trust | Taxpayers' Alliance | Young Britons' Foundation | UKIP | Bruges Group | Global Britain | HS2 Cannot be Justified | Conservative Party
thumb|left|300px|Patrick Barbour's political affiliations
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