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30 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Malcolm Offord tried and failed to become an MSP in May 2021’s @ScotParl elections. Today, after donating nearly £150,000 to the Tories, he’s being ennobled handed a @UKGovScotland ministerial role.
Malcolm Offord, a Greenock-born financier who has donated nearly £150,000 to the Tories, was made a life peer and a junior Scotland Office minister over the heads of elected Scottish Tory MPs. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Boris Johnson is making a mockery of democracy in handing the millionaire private-equity investor Malcolm Offord, a man who has given £147,000 to the Tory Party, a life peerage and a ministerial job. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… Image
The price of a peerage.
All the donations made by Malcolm Offord to the Tory Party in 2007-19. The only individuals he’s given to are Michael Gove and Legatum CEO Philippa Stroud. Just like Offord, she was made a peer after failing to get elected. Image

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