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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Exclusive: Former Conservative minister Mike Penning used House of Commons stationery while he was a justice minister to write a personal recommendation for a donor who had given him tens of thousands of pounds thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-m…
Sir Mike Penning wrote an open letter commending Jan Telensky and a company to which he is closely linked, without mentioning the sums he had contributed to him and his constituency party
Three weeks after the letter was written, Telensky gave Penning free tickets worth £500 to watch England get knocked out of the Rugby World Cup at Twickenham by Australia

Months earlier, Penning’s constituency party had received £10,000 from Telensky
After Penning left government in 2017, Telensky employed him in a second job as non-executive director of his property firm JT Consultancy, which he wholly owns

Penning has earned £76,000 from this second job since September 2019

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