Richard Cook and David Cameron. Image: voterichardcook.blogspot.com, fair use.
A modest, semi-detached house in Clarkston on Glasgow’s southside seems an unlikely source for a secretive, £435,000 donation to the Democratic Unionist Party’s Brexit campaign. But the occupant – Richard Cook – is the only person publicly connected with the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy pro-union group that funnelled dark money to the DUP ahead of June’s EU referendum.
And Richard Cook is not just connected to Northern Irish unionism – he has links that go to the heart of the Scottish Conservative Party, the Saudi intelligence service and a notorious Indian gun running scandal.
