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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across all three outlets, with a bias spread of just 1.0 point separating the most divergent scores. All headlines treated the donations as straightforward financial news, using neutral or mildly transactional verbs: the Financial Times chose "receives," the Independent opted for "secures," and Sky News framed the story as an analytical question — "Who are Reform UK's two mega-donors?" — without any evaluative language. The most notable, if minor, distinction is that the Independent personalised the story by leading with "Farage's Reform UK," anchoring the party to its prominent figurehead rather than treating it as an institution, as the Financial Times did. Sky News diverged slightly in approach by foregrounding the donors themselves rather than the party. None of the headlines employed ideologically loaded vocabulary, and no outlet framed the donations as either a threat or a triumph. The shared framing was descriptive and factual throughout.