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Tories face questions over £500,000 of donations linked to bribery-accused banker

Labour asks whether Conservatives will give back funds, and calls for Tory co-chair’s sacking

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson's bid to stuff Lords with cronies risks 'undermining public confidence'

The Lords Speaker urged Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to show more 'restraint' in appointing new peers if they become Prime Minister

Daily Mirror

Top Tory Ben Elliot and donors being considered for gongs in Boris Johnson's honours list

Big ticket donors are being discussed for peerages - many of them members of Mr Johnson’s “advisory committee” of donors who are granted access to senior ministers in return for giving more than £250,000 to the party

Daily Mirror

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Major Tory donor threatened to 'expose' Treasurer after row at 'unity dinner'

Lord Rami Ranger, who has given £1.3 million to the party personally and through his firm Sun Mark, accused Treasurer Malik Karim of being rude to him at the Global Unity dinner at the Dorchester last week.

Daily Mirror

Tory donor explains decision not to sue former MP for libel

Mohamed Amersi decided not to ‘commence legal proceedings’ against Sir Nicholas Soames.

The Independent UK

Is the V&A a temple of culture or a brothel?

The Conservative party’s latest £20,000-a-table function for donors at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a stain on one of our great institutions

The Guardian - UK

Quintessentially Foundation Bike Ride: Cyclists ride from Pisa to Rome in £400k bid to help London children

Sixty cyclists have embarked on a four day cycling challenge from Pisa to Rome to raise £400,000 to support young people in London.

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Is Johnson on the cusp of a no-confidence vote? More Tory MPs call for him to go

BORIS Johnson could be on the cusp of facing a no confidence vote amid suggestions that just a few more Tory MPs could tilt the balance.

The National (Scotland)

V&A at centre of row over auction of private tour as prize at Tory fundraising event

Labour says auction by museum, whose trustees include Tory chair Ben Elliot, breached code of conduct

The Guardian - UK

Tory councillors rebuked for ‘negative’ election campaign blamed for sparking antisemitic abuse of rival

Conservatives placed Jewish Labour candidate’s face on electronic billboard next to claims he supported Hezbollah

The Independent UK

Tory co-chairman's luxury firm for oligarchs says it's pulled out of Russia after fury

A spokesperson for Quintessentially - directed by Tory co-chairman Ben Elliot - tonight said it had withdrawn its franchise licence in Russia after boasting about how it provided "luxury lifestyle management" to Moscow's elite

Daily Mirror

Labour calls for Tories to sack co-chair over Russia links

Keir Starmer said if Ben Elliot did not step back, he should be forced out.

The Independent UK

Starmer calls on Tories to sack co-chair Ben Elliot over party links to Russia

Firm Elliot jointly owns offered ‘luxury lifestyle management services’ to Russian elite

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer demands Tories sack co-chairman whose firm boasted of links to 'Russian elite'

Labour's leader hit out after a firm run by Ben Elliot, the co-chairman of the Conservative Party, said it provided 'luxury lifestyle management services to Russia's elite'

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The Guardian - UK

UK politics: BBC temporarily halts news operation in Russia after new law threatens journalists with prison – as it happened

Latest updates: director general says new law appears to ‘criminalise the process of independent journalism’

The Guardian - UK

Labour accuses Boris Johnson of creating a ‘cash-for-access culture’

Exclusive: letter from Anneliese Dodds says PM allowed Tory chair to ‘blur the lines to boost party coffers’

The Guardian - UK

Without state funding, Britain’s politics will always stink

A colossal amount of power is wielded by dangerously few donors, with just 10 people donating a quarter of Tory funds, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Give me back my £200,000, major donor tells Tories

Controversial telecoms mogul Mohamed Amersi takes on Conservative party over exclusion from elite gatherings and auction prizes never received

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