The Conservative Party, a cabinet minister and a senior MP have continued to take thousands of pounds in donations from a businessman who expressed “unacceptable” views on Muslims and claimed that democracy faced “implosion” due to immigration.
In the last seven years, Maurizio Bragagni, an Italian-born industrialist living in the UK, has donated nearly £700,000 to the Tory Party and individual Conservative politicians either directly or through his company, Tratos.
The party distanced itself from the views on Muslims and immigration that were expressed in an article he wrote for an Italian publication in May. But it has continued to accept his money.
