Breaking: Cabinet Office urged to investigate fresh Tory ‘cash for honours’ scandal. New @openDemocracy research reveals one in five elite Tory donors got top honours, including knighthoods and peerages. Odds are 'like winning lottery five times'. #GE2019 opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
When Rami Ranger was made a peer in September, he told India Today that Theresa May "gave me the peerage to make sure that I support the party". Donors who have given the Tories tens of millions have been given knighthoods and peerages in last decade
Almost 20% of an elite group of leading Tory funders have received honours after donating to the party, research by openDemocracy has found. Tories no longer publish details of Leader's Group who get access to ministers and PM and given more than £130m opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
The findings that dozens of leading Tory donors have received honours come as police are investigating claims that senior Brexit Party figures were offered peerages and other opportunities in exchange for standing aside for Tories in key marginal seats for the general election.
Labour shadow cabinet minister Jon Trickett said: "Under the Tories, the honours system has become a way for politicians to reward establishment cronies and repay favours.”. The Scottish National Party has called for the Cabinet Office to investigate.
Tamasin Cave of transparency campaign group Spinwatch said: “These donors invest in the Conservative Party and expect a return....It puts the Conservatives in hock to people whose private, commercial interests are often at odds with what’s good for the rest of us.”
