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Tories have accepted £2.6m from ‘shadowy’ donors since Boris Johnson became PM

Exclusive: Secretive groups that can keep donors anonymous have given £800,000 to ‘Red Wall’ Tory MPs since 2019

By Peter Geoghegan, Seth Thévoz and Martin Williams
Tories have accepted £2.6m from ‘shadowy’ donors since Boris Johnson became PM
Boris Johnson's party has accepted £2.6m from groups with anonymous funders since 2019 | Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
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The Conservative Party has accepted £2.6m in donations from ‘shadowy’ groups with anonymous funders since Boris Johnson became prime minister.

An analysis by openDemocracy also reveals that more than £800,000 of this was given directly to individual Tory MPs and their local parties, mostly in marginal ‘Red Wall’ seats.

The finding comes after the Committee on Standards in Public Life warned yesterday that “unincorporated associations” could be used as “a route for foreign money to influence UK elections”.

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