TORY leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has raked in over a quarter of a million pounds in donations over the last fortnight.

In the same period his only rival for the top job, Jeremy Hunt, has not received a penny.

The latest figures published by Parliament strongly suggest Mr Johnson has consolidated his lead among the party’s wealthiest supporters.

He amassed £235,500 since June 21, donated by 11 individuals and three businesses.

Among his largest donors were the former Tory co-treasurer and wealthy City boy Peter Cruddas, giving £50,000. He resigned from the party in 2012 after a cash-for-access sting.

Mr Johnson also continued to receive huge fees for opening his mouth, topping up his salary with a £42,580 payment on a three-hour “speaking engagement” at a finance forum in the picturesque Swiss lakeside town of Thun.

Alongside the race to be Tory leader and Britain’s next prime minister is the far less high -rofile battle to front the Liberal Democrats.

One of their two contenders, Jo Swinson, managed to attract £4,000 from three donors. Her rival, Sir Ed Davey, returned a blank declaration.

Oxford MP Layla Moran trousered £41,750 from five individuals and a business despite ruling herself out of the leadership race.

Her declaration form said the donations were “linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation.”

There were also some surprising transactions among Labour politicians.

Tottenham MP and former barrister David Lammy made 10“late” declarations totalling over £20,000 for less than three days’ work, dating back as far as May 2018.

Fellow Labour MP Jess Phillips has banked thousands of pounds from newspapers, broadcasters and publishers on top of her £79,468-a-year parliamentary salary.

She is beloved by the media as a centrist alternative to Jeremy Corbyn and brought home £867 for writing three Guardian articles, which took her a total of four and a half hours.

Her recent writing for the Guardian has included arguing for a second referendum on Brexit and criticising shadow home secretary Diane Abbott for supporting  investigative journalist Julian Assange.

Ms Phillips also sold TV rights on her biography for an eye-watering seven grand to a production company, and took £600 from Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, plus a couple of hundred quid from the Telegraph.