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Leadsom campaign chair denies involvement in dark-money funded poll which boosted her campaign

The MP who ran Andrea Leadsom’s leadership bid tells openDemocracy that he wasn’t involved in commissioning a key opinion poll which boosted her campaign and was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

By Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan
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Tim Loughton MP - photo, timloughton.com.

The chair of Andrea Leadsom’s campaign to become Conservative party leader has denied involvement in an opinion poll which added momentum to her bid for prime minister at a key moment, openDemocracy can reveal.

Tim Loughton, the Conservative MP for East Worthing & Shoreham, has responded on Twitter to our revelation that a vital poll in the election, which showed Leadsom to be the key challenger to Theresa May on the day that MPs voted in their ‘first ballot’, was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council. Mr Loughton Tweeted “it is nonsense & the campaign had nothing to do with this poll”.

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