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Just to clear up the mystery of those donations tagged to the Conservative Party that I blogged about last year, I’ve had the email below from the Electoral Commission. Basically the Tories mucked up their admin –
Dear Mr Powdrill, You contacted…Read more…
Just keeping this one warm. As it stands, the Electoral Commission register of donations continues to list two donations from Caledonia Investments PLC worth £4000 in the financial year to 31 March 2015. As previously noted these were not disclosed in the company’s annual report and were not…Read more…
I’ve had a response from the FRC, which has been in touch with the company. Apparently the company “confirms” that it has not made any donations since 2010. However, as of today the two donations are still on the Electoral Commission website and attrib…Read more…
A couple of weeks back I blogged that Caledonia Investments had made two separate donations of £2000 to the Conservative Party – received in December 2014 and mid March 2015.
To be crystal clear, according to the Electoral Commission the first donation was received on 12 December 2014, the second…Read more…
I’ve blogged previously about Caledonia Investments continuing to give the company’s money to the Conservative Party, this time without shareholder approval. I’ve just spotted that actually they have done it twice in the past few months, first in Eastl…Read more…
Well this is interesting. It turns out that Caledonia Investments hasn’t quite given up on using company money to fund the Tories after all. I speculated last June that they may have given up. My reasons for thinking this were a) they had made no donat…Read more…