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Eyebrows raised over Tory candidate’s ‘unusual’ £100,000 MPs’ expense claims

Conservative who blocked upskirting legislation and opposed anti-domestic-violence laws outsourced parliamentary research to anti-political correctness campaigner.

By Peter Geoghegan and Jenna Corderoy
Eyebrows raised over Tory candidate’s ‘unusual’ £100,000 MPs’ expense claims
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Conservative Philip Davies spent more than £100,000 of taxpayers’ money on research from a little-known consultancy run by an anti-political-correctness campaigner, openDemocracy can reveal.

Opposition politicians and campaigners have asked why Davies – who is defending the marginal seat of Shipley – used public funds to purchase research from a London-based consultancy called the Big Ben Partnership.

Big Ben Partnership is run by the co-founder of a group called Campaign Against Political Correctness. The only public reference to the consultancy’s work appears to be a citation in a men’s rights publication.

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