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Tory Party faces questions over £3.6m unaccounted for in 2019 election

Researchers say it is unclear where more than a fifth of the Conservatives’ national spend went during the election

Tory Party faces questions over £3.6m unaccounted for in 2019 election
Boris Johnson on the campaign trail in 2019. More than half of local Tory branches did not file invoices for their spending. | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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The Conservative Party is facing questions over more than £3.6m it spent in the run-up to the 2019 general election without explaining what it paid for.

Researchers from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance were unable to work out what more than a fifth of the Tories’ national spend had actually been used for because of unclear or even missing invoices.

The Tories were responsible for almost 60% of the unclear invoices in the Electoral Commission’s database for the 2019 election, the team of researchers found.