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Fatcat donors were behind more than half the £52million given to the Tories since 2017.

Analysis by Labour reveals the cash from the secretive Leader’s Group — an elite network of donors who pay £50,000-a-year to dine with top Tory ministers.

The billionaires, business tycoons and hedge fund bosses have access to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers such as Chancellor Philip Hammond, as well as leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Sajid Javid.

Of those dining with Tory ministers, super-rich donors working in finance donated £9.1million to the party.

Jon Trickett, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, said: “The Tory Party is closer to millionaires than to the hard working millions. This list reveals the shocking truth.

“It confirms some voices are heard more than others — and that money talks.”

Top donors include the Bamford Family, who own JCB and also donated to Vote Leave.

They have given the party £2.8million since 2017.

Sir Mick Davis, the boss of Tory HQ knighted by David Cameron, has put in £2.3million.

They also received £491,000 from Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister.