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Politics Editor for @Tortoise . Politics, investigations & taramasalata. Mrs @alexfarber DMs open for tips

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Cat Neilan

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After @tortoise 's exclusive on Jenrick's BVI-linked donation @elliereeves has asked Electoral Commission to investigate. "Donations to MPs must come from sources registered in the UK... Jenrick has serious questions to answer about the origin of these funds & their legality"

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New: Robert Jenrick’s top donor received loan from untraceable BVI firm The Spott Fitness has given Jenrick £75k just months after receiving an undisclosed sum from a co listed in the British Virgin Islands Me for @tortoise

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Cat Neilan

1 year

Exclusive: Liberal Democrats are seeking to overturn Boris Johnson’s entire resignation honours list. A letter by @cajardineMP to the Forfeiture Ctte, and seen by @tortoise calls for an investigation after Johnson was censured by Parliament last night

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Lib Dems take aim at Johnson’s entire honours list - Tortoise

MPs are hoping to harness anger expressed in crushing vote against the former PM

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I've been working on an incredible story that I can finally share. Please indulge me for a moment. This is Paul. He is a Tory donor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and genealogist enthusiast. His full name is Paul Edwin Lancelot Thomas Borrow-Longain. Or is it?

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Another MP gets in touch with a rather bleak assessment of the party's future: "I’ve concluded from today’s report - the PM is safe but we’ve certainly lost the next general election"

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New: A company with close ties to Zahawi’s family failed for six years to comply with transparency laws designed to stamp out money laundering.

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Sensemaker: Cabinet shaker - Tortoise

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MPs are now suggesting that even if Boris Johnson wins, things will quickly disintegrate. Tories predicting mass resignations, meaning Truss would be unable to tell King Charles III that he commands the confidence of a majority of MPs

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Another Tory MP, who sits on a four figure majority, tells me he is planning for his next job outside Parliament. Seems reconciled to losing his seat - but his big fear is being associated with a grubby government (And yes, he's submitted a letter)

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It seems Andrea Leadsom's intervention has put the cat amongst the pigeons: 🚨MPs now saying they expect a vote on PM's leadership on Tuesday. 🚨 Boris Johnson now personally calling MPs to try and build support ahead of vote, promising jobs if they "stay with me".

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One Tory MP blames.... Keir Starmer "If there was a strong opposition, Pincher wouldn't have ever been deputy chief whip," he says.

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1 year

Exclusive: Sources dispute Charlotte Owen’s claim to have worked for George Osborne, either directly or at his constituency office Owen's LinkedIn profile says she interned for him in 2011 and again in Tatton in 2012 I'm told this is not the case 👇

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Charlotte Owen’s claim to have worked in George Osborne’s Tatton office in tatters - Tortoise

Charlotte Owen is as hard to pin down as her CV

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2 years

The messages were sent over a period of several weeks

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Cabinet Office Minister @OliverDowden says the 'abusive messages' that Sir Gavin Williamson MP sent to the then Chief Whip Wendy Morton were "sent in the heat of the moment", that he regrets the language used but adds "it's in the past now" #Ridge :

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Exc: A 3rd person given an honour from Boris Johnson was listed with inflated job title Ben Mallet, granted an OBE for "political & public service" is cited as "Former Strategy Director for the General Election" One source said: “He was no such thing.”

Third individual on Boris Johnson’s honours list given inflated job title - Tortoise

Another massaged CV gets a gong

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Lebedev hasn't voted once since becoming a Lord. He has attended three times - once every five-ish months - just enough to avoid being suspended More here 👇

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Lord Lebedev's peerage under spotlight after his lack of contribution to Parliament since maiden...

Boris Johnson recommended Evgeny Lebedev for a peerage, but the tycoon has not voted or contributed since his maiden speech.

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Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s aide nominated for peerage appears to have exaggerated time spent at Number 10 Charlotte Owen claims to have worked as a spad for the then-PM from Feb 2021 to Oct 2022, but sources (and documents) suggest otherwise 👇

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Johnson’s aide nominated for peerage appears to have exaggerated time spent at Number 10 - Tortoise

Charlotte Owens’ LinkedIn profile is contradicted by Number 10’s own records

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1 year

Oof... Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle absolutely livid about Kemi Badenoch saying that the "sequencing we chose was not to your satisfaction" on REUL u-turn announcement. Hoyle: "Who do you think you're speaking to Secretary of State?"

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Safe to say the promotion of Jonathan Gullis hasn't gone down brilliantly among some of his colleagues One says he was "cheaply bought for his gushing whatsapp" and that it's "a spectacularly stupid decision and shows how tone deaf No 10 is." Another MP texts "🤭🤣🤭🤣🤭🤣"

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Exclusive: Daughter of banker accused of having connections to Russian security service has string of roles at Conservative groups

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Daughter of banker accused of having connections to Russian security service meets string of top...

Ilma Bogdan met Stanley Johnson, Sajid Javid and Malcolm Rifkind thanks to her string of roles at Tory party groups.

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2 years

After dinner circuit, here we come

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2 years

🚨 Last night, No 10 told me the PM had "full confidence" in Gavin Williamson... Tonight that's been updated to: "Wouldn’t be right for me to comment while complaints process underway"

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Read the story in full here - and if you have ever come across him, and want to talk, my DMs are open 👇

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Tory donor who changed his name and invented eccentric persona accused of pressuring young people...

Paul Edwin Lancelot Thomas Borrow-Longain, a Tory donor, used to be called Paul J Langan. Sources say he pressured them to take loans out for his companies.

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2 years

Rumour doing the rounds that the magic number has been reached but Brady waiting until after recess/jubilee to pull the trigger...

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There is also no rule on when Brady needs to announce that the threshold has been reached, I'm told. With recess imminent, it's not impossible he could be keeping his powder dry for a time when a vote can be scheduled at short notice.

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Exclusive: Cabinet Office “handed out” names of bullying whistleblowers to subject of complaint Sources told @tortoise they had submitted a series of complaints about Dan Rosenfield, Boris Johnson's former chief of staff, to the Propriety & Ethics Team

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Simon Case under pressure over claims Cabinet Office “handed out” names of bullying whistleblowers

Whistleblowers have accused the Cabinet Office of “handing out” their identities to the subject of a bullying complaint, heaping fresh pressure on the UK’s cabinet secretary Simon Case.

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I've been relatively quiet for a few weeks - but here is why. Tortoise and Sky News have finally launched an amazing tool allowing the public to find out how much money their MP has received - and from whom. It's called #Westminsteraccounts

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💷Introducing: The Westminster Accounts. @tortoise and @SkyNews have created a first-of-its-kind database showing the scale of money entering UK politics. Use our tool to search for your MP and find out who has given them money 👉 #westminsteraccounts

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I'm told Liz Truss called for the meeting with Graham Brady to discuss imminent changes to 'the rules'. A VONC is coming

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Tory MPs were given thousands in donations without knowing the source: "The first I heard of IX Wireless is when I was told ‘this is something you need to put on the register of interests for compliance purposes’ – that was all I ever heard of them."

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Tory MPs accepted donations worth thousands from mystery donors - Tortoise

Northern MPs were told to accept money from a company they’d never heard of

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2 years

And there is more. One of his firms took out a Covid Bounceback Loan worth £37,500. The same firm has donated £10,000 to Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski.

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4 months

Electoral Commission is yet to receive any request for an investigation from Reform

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Exclusive: Tory party “sitting on” further £5m from disgraced donor Frank Hester Me for @tortoise

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Exclusive: Tory party "sitting on" further £5m from disgraced donor Frank Hester

The party's biggest-ever donor, currently embroiled in a race row, has given the party £15m in the past year.

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1 year

New: Backbench MP Julian Smith has been attending frequent No 10 meetings without a formal role, meaning he can circumvent Acoba rules and potentially opening up conflicts of interest issues

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Dark Arts - Tortoise

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2 years

Paul Borrow-Longain came across my radar some months ago. Tory sources raised suspicions with me about whether he was who he said he was. They called him “Borrowed-Longname”. Ilma Bogdan, another subject of an investigation, had worked for him

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Daughter of banker accused of having connections to Russian security service meets string of top...

Ilma Bogdan met Stanley Johnson, Sajid Javid and Malcolm Rifkind thanks to her string of roles at Tory party groups.

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2 years

An MP has sent me this gif as a depiction of the Tory WhatsApp group chat

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2 years

Rishi Sunak is said to be on #pmqs damage limitation mode after the weekend's story about a Swiss-style deal put the cat among the pigeons. Widely seen as having come from Jeremy Hunt, who is now under pressure to keep his job...

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2 years

I'm told Brady will act after 33% of MPs have submitted letters, not half. Source point out that at 50% she has in essence lost the confidence and would not need a vote.

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Understand Liz Truss has been informed by Graham Brady the traditional threshold of letters for a leadership challenge has been breached. But he is insisting on a threshold of half the parliamentary party before acting.

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🚨 Exclusive: A formal complaint has been submitted to CCHQ about "threatening" messages sent by Gavin Williamson Full story here 👇

Sensemaker: American democracy - Tortoise

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3 years

Bill Wiggin says Qataris are the "right" kind of immigrants, a fact he presumably learned during a Qatar-funded £2,740 trip there

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11 months

MPs now believe Robert Jenrick has resigned - I'm told Simon Clarke asked Rishi Sunak directly at the 1922 meeting if he had stepped down and the PM did not deny it

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2 years

There are wider questions about his funds. Money appears to be moving from company to company, according to both Companies House and sources. Employees had to prompt him to be paid, or in some cases have gone unpaid.

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Now meet Paul James Langan. He is a Tory supporter and businessman based in Canada. His companies are now dissolved, websites don’t work and social media appears dormant.

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1 year

Exclusive: A Labour MP claims she was sexually assaulted by a shadow minister

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Labour MP claims shadow minister sexually assaulted her - Tortoise

A female Labour MP has reported a frontbench colleague to the Metropolitan Police, claiming he sexually assaulted her. The incident is alleged to have taken place after a summer party in London in...

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Exc: Richard Holden has told colleagues he's hoping to stay on as party chair after the election, to help with the leadership contest One Tory compared it to "Putin offering to help rebuild Ukraine”

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Exclusive: Tory chair Richard Holden clinging on after election 'like Putin rebuilding Ukraine' -...

One source says it would be like Putin offering to rebuild Ukraine.

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3 years

Magnitsky campaigner @Billbrowder says Lords should have their peerages revoked if they have worked for Putin-linked individuals/entities - me for @InsiderIntl

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Bill Browder: Lords who worked with Oleg Deripaska and the Russian government should be thrown out...

Bill Browder, the architect of the Magnitsky Act, told Insider Lord Barker and Lord (Peter) Goldsmith should have their peerages revoked.

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2 years

Back to the UK, and Borrow-Longain, where the story gets even more interesting. Sources have accused him of pressuring young people into taking out startup loans worth thousands of pounds to invest in one of his businesses.

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Borrow-Longain declined to comment on the allegations unless I told him who was making the claims. But he did acknowledge the name change. He also wanted me to report that he was in "significant pain and not very well".

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2 years

Borrow-Longain’s social media tells a story of glitzy drinks receptions, dinners at the Carlton Club and hob-knobbing with ministers and minor royals.

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5 months

It's taken nearly three months to establish but finally Electoral Commission data confirms my exclusive from March - the Conservatives had already received an extra £5m from Frank Hester when the racism row was raging

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7 months

Exclusive: Tory party “sitting on” further £5m from disgraced donor Frank Hester Me for @tortoise

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Cat Neilan

3 years

This hasn't been sent to anyone in our team, including @Direthoughts

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Jack Elsom

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Neil Coyle statement: "I’m very sorry for my insensitive comments, have apologised to everyone involved and will be cooperating fully with the investigation."

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2 years

Boris Johnson is said to be mulling a general election this year, amid fears the economy will only get worse

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Boris Johnson mulls snap election in 2022 after being warned economy 'won't get any better' before...

Boris Johnson's strategist Lynton Crosby warned the prime minister about the UK economy, Insider was told as inflation hit 10% this week.

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1 year

Exclusive: Nadine Dorries is seeking legal advice regarding the Cabinet Secretary, after Simon Case revealed he had contacted the Commons Speaker and Conservative chief whip over her behaviour, Tortoise understands

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Cat Neilan

2 years

Whisper it, but Tories are starting to talk about the prospect of PM losing. A non-rebel source says of the '22: "Even if everyone in that room was with the PM (which we know they aren’t…) ... [it] is not enough to win it."

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1 year

Incredible exchange between @RhonddaBryant and @RishiSunak just now on his "respect for parliament"

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2 years

Some 📢 personal news, as they say... Absolutely thrilled to be joining @tortoise as editor, focusing on politics, from the end of the month!

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2 years

Labour's @AnnelieseDodds using a point of order to ask about @jane__bradley 's cracking scoop last week, which we followed up here

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Tories accepted a six-figure donation whose 'ultimate source' was a pro-Kremlin former Ukrainian...

A donation of £450,000 was made in the name of Ehud Sheleg, but an alert sent to the National Crime Agency claimed the "ultimate source" was his pro-Kremlin Ukrainian father-in-law.

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Cat Neilan

11 months

Tory MPs discussing all options from letters, to confidence vote - to snap election. Jenrick is "another Jenga block removed", says one. But there's also acceptance that there really aren't any good options anymore: "If there was an alternative [Sunak] would be gone tonight"

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Cat Neilan

2 years

New: Thatcherite group Conservative Way Forward are planning a crisis meeting this week to discuss what to do regarding Truss. David Frost tells colleagues it should be "sooner rather than later" in the circumstances, and that "things look bleak"

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2 years

. @Carolinenokes and Karen Bradley have written to chief whip over Pincher and other sexual misconduct cases They call for "zero tolerance" and a "thorough investigation... in each and every case". Anyone undergoing investigation "should not be allowed to sit as a Cons MP"

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2 years

Next Tuesday, after the Jubilee, just to be clear...

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2 years

Not only is Gavin Williamson's Cab appt, in the words of one Tory MP, "absurd" in light of his past behaviour, he's not even winning over Tory members...

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Jack Maidment

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Absolutely brutal Cabinet popularity league table for Sir Gavin Williamson from @ConHome survey of Tory members. 10 days into his new ministerial role and he is rock bottom and the only senior minister with a negative score: -28.8.

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Cat Neilan

2 years

Wendy Morton, chief whip under Liz Truss, has submitted the complaint about "vile and threatening messages" sent over the course of many weeks. One Tory MP said the submission included screen grabs.

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2 years

Williamson, who has been sacked from Cabinet twice, was made minister without portfolio in the Ri-shuffle. Some MPs suggest that along with Braverman, this is evidence of the new PM's poor judgment. More on that here

Ep 465: The return of Suella Braverman

Sensemaker · Episode

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One of the peers nominated by Boris Johnson is facing a 3-week suspension for "bullying and harassment", less than a year after being made a lord I previously revealed how the reason given for his lifelong honour (former adviser) was..er... wrong

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4 months

The findings were "...produced on assumptions provided by special advisers of behalf of ministers"... might not be quite the gotcha he was looking for

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NEW: I have received a response from the Cabinet Secretary. He has confirmed that 21 costings of Labour’s policies were produced by civil servants from HM Treasury and other relevant departments. Contrary to Labour's claims he also confirmed that the letter from the Treasury

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3 years

Ilma Bogdan's LinkedIn page reveals a long list of roles with Tory party affiliates, including at the Conservative Women's Organisation and Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council.

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1 year

One source said “The identities of whistleblowers were given to the man whose behaviour they are complaining about, by people who are meant to be guardians of the whole process.”

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2 years

For some weeks now, some of us here at @Tortoise have been trying to understand the world around Boris Johnson's finances. Who is funding him? Who is facilitating it? And how much of it is strictly within the rules? Listen to Ep 1 below 👇

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This is the story of a politician incapable of living within his means but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. It’s the story of how that dependence on others...

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Cat Neilan

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The incident is alleged to have taken place in July 2021, after a party for Labour MPs. The victim claims she told senior party figures but no action was taken. She has now reported the incident to the Met Police

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2 years

Everyone is - understandably - focusing on what MPs are doing right now. But members are already seeking to influence the outcome, I'm told I'm told associations are pushing for Boris - in some instances threatening deselection

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These roles have afforded Bogdan in-person access to Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), where she met the Prime Minister's father Stanley Johnson, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and one-time mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey.

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Speaking to @bbclaurak , Transport Secretary Mark Harper is unable to deny my exclusive report from this week. He repeatedly refers to "future" donations and "hypothetical" scenarios. But I've been told the £5m has been handed over already 👇

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Cat Neilan

7 months

Exclusive: Tory party “sitting on” further £5m from disgraced donor Frank Hester Me for @tortoise

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3 years

She has also had stints with the Conservative Friends of India, and Cambridge Conservatives, among others.

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2 years

Exclusive: Matt Hancock has been touting the work of an unregistered company that risks being taken to court for having used the name “institute” without approval.

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Hancock’s crypto hankering - Tortoise

The former health secretary is institutionally into digital currencies

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Cat Neilan

2 years

All the usual caveats apply - no one really knows except Brady - but I'm aware of more letters being submitted than have been publicly confirmed. There is talk of coordination among the ONTs...

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Cat Neilan

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This story has been delayed several days because of attempts to get more details from Gibraltar. Spokespeople insist that the territory is A) not a tax haven and B) transparent. But answers to my questions were not exactly forthcoming 🤷‍♀️

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1 year

Political heat is building for the PM over Suella Braverman. One former minister says he should sack her before she walks. "He needs to show some backbone and face up to the challenges of being PM. The job is about leadership and he now needs to show some."

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Cat Neilan

2 years

Exclusive: Former MEP invited paying subscribers access to a meeting of vaccine sceptics in parliament

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Former MEP offered paying subscribers access to a meeting of vaccine sceptics in parliament -...

The event was also attended by anti-vaxx campaigner Dr Aseem Malhotra, as well as Conservative MPs Desmond Swayne and Andrew Bridgen

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Cat Neilan

1 year

They didn't hear anything further about their complaint - until it emerged some weeks later than Rosenfield had discovered their identities

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Cat Neilan

2 years

Balshore is listed at Companies House as a “person of significant control” (PSC) of Crowd2Fund, backdated to April 2016. It was removed in 2020, although continued to own +37% of the shares. Rules state that PSCs must be traceable to individuals

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Another source said it left her with an "ominous, threatening feeling". Several said it would further erode any trust in PET and the wider Cabinet Office. One of the complainants has now referred the matter to the ICO.

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3 years

Ilma suggested the comments were only made by "the opposition" but Tory figures have also raised concerns. One said her details "raise red flags."

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1 year

Senior sources told @Tortoise there was no record of her having worked for the former chancellor. Instead they say Owen was a member of the local party association and part of Conservative Future, precursor to the Young Conservatives.

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1 year

Labour has stressed that its process for dealing with these kinds of complaints "is a thorough, robust and independent process that individuals can have confidence in.” But here's what Claire Reynolds, director of the Labour Women's Network, told the Guardian yesterday

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. @greybrow53 told Tortoise this leaves "a huge gap of six years when, despite Balshore owning 40 per cent of Crowd2Fund, no declaration of the underlying owners of Balshore has been made, as required by UK law”.

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Cat Neilan

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Mallet is the third person on Johnson's list whose citation doesn't appear to match up with reality. Last week I revealed that Charlotte Owen, set to be the UK's youngest life peer, appeared to have exaggerated her time at Number 10

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They were later able to establish that there had been “calls between the Cabinet Office and Dan Rosenfield” over the course of a weekend. Sources said they were told the calls were with the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and head of PET Darren Tierney

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Day three of #WestminsterAccounts MPs have declared almost £5 million in earnings this parliament without disclosing their end clients, acc to @tortoise and @SkyNews analysis Cracking story from @pcaruanagalizia and team

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Sensemaker: Who Pays the Piper? - Tortoise

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Some mutterings about whether Boris Johnson can hit the 100 mark but both those in the pro and anti-Boris camps seem fairly convinced he'll sail through. One supporter says they're "looking to have 50 public tonight". One critic estimates he gets 💥140 💥 on first ballot

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Multiple sources disputed Mallet's job title - which they said actually belonged to Isaac Levido, who is now advising Rishi Sunak. One person who worked on GE19 said: "They stuck [Mallet] in a room and said 'don’t touch anything'."

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Conservative MPs (Inc those on the right of the party) have raised @BootstrapCook in conversation as an example of a) a great campaigner and b) the cost of living crisis. It's down to Jack that higher-ups are listening

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In her letter, Jardine writes that Johnson “launched deplorable attacks on the Committee and our Parliamentary democracy”. She says the circumstances around the list, and events after it was released, "are unprecedented and have brought the honours system into disrepute".

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If you'd like to know more, I'm going to be talking about the investigation and story at 3pm

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In today’s @Twitterspaces , @catneilan discusses her investigation into Paul Edwin Lancelot Thomas Borrow-Longain It is alleged that he pressured at least two young women into taking out loans worth thousands of pounds. Set a reminder now. 👇

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A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “There is no evidence to suggest that the government has acted improperly in handling this issue.” The spokesperson could not explain how the names had been passed on.

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Steve Goodrich of @TransparencyUK said it was a "six year black hole", adding: "It seems implausible that no-one was controlling Balshore Investments between 2016 and 2022, and whoever was should have been reported to Companies House as a beneficial owner of Crowd2Fund Limited."

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Morton confirmed she has submitted a complaint, but declined to comment further. A friend of Williamson said he “strongly refutes these allegations”

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Jardine says there are grounds for assessing whether the list "can be revoked in its entirety." And she is not alone... One Tory MP told me: "The focus is always on individual honours as no one would imagine the person giving would be [the one] doing the disrepute.”

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Cat Neilan

1 year

The Chequers party story has really kicked up some dirt and MPs are seriously discussing letters of no confidence against the PM... "54 letters not hard between now and November - Suella, Truss, Boris, Penny all have reasons to be awkward," says one former minister

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In a subsequent role in the private sector, Mallet had “spent most of time working for Boris e.g. househunting”, a source added. Mallet's public profiles make no reference to the GE role

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Cat Neilan

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And, if you'd like to hear more about the chaotic hours leading up to Truss' resignation - please enjoy one we made earlier, now free to listen on Spotify etc:

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Mutiny: The undoing of Liz Truss

The Slow Newscast · Episode

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Cat Neilan

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The spokesman for Owen said: “I believe she isn’t saying anything on this one, but anything further isn’t for me.” He said he no longer spoke for her “or anyone else on the [Johnson resignation honours] list” & didn’t respond when asked how the future baroness could be reached

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Two former ministers said if Smith is privy to information intended only for members of the government, then Sunak could be in breach of the same rule that led to Suella Braverman being forced out of Liz Truss’s government last year

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Cat Neilan

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Boris Johnson now explaining that "at all times" actually meant "on 18th December" and not, in fact, at all times

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He noted the disclosure requirements were "a central plank of David Cameron’s push for transparency across the main global economies (G7) in order to try and disrupt corruption and transnational organised crime."

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