Labour donors turn on Brown

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With Labour facing financial difficulties over the repayment of millions of pounds worth of loans, the desertion of backers could be disastrous.

Sir Maurice Hatter, a millionaire businessman who has given more than £176,000, told the Sunday Times he would not donate more to a Brown-led party.

"He was a good number two, but he is not a number one. I was a Tony Blair supporter and I think his successor is doing very poorly. I believe that Brown is a nonrunner. The party would be better without him being prime minister."

Loans totalling £7.45 million are due for repayment or review by July 1, and around £6 million more by the end of this year, according to figures on the Electoral Commission website.

Sir Gerry Robinson told the newspaper he would "probably not" give more money and said it was "hard to imagine it could be worse than it is".

"Gordon is someone who wants to be in control of the detail himself. You can't run a family like that, let alone the country," he added.

Everton Football Club chairman Bill Kenwright said he continued to support the party but that the Government had "lost touch with the people".

"The leadership has to look at some sort of quantum change. There appears to have been a bit of an energy bypass," he told the paper.

Author Michael Ondaatje, whose donations total £1.6 million in the last seven years, attacked the Government's Northern Rock policy but would not say whether he would contribute more cash.