Tax letter business leaders gave £2.5m to Tories

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Signatories to a Daily Telegraph calling for a stop to the proposed increase in national insurance have given nearly £500,000 to the Conservative party.

UPDATE 14.55:

Thanks to our commenter, Henry, who pointed out that, “LFF are only scratching the surface with their list. You need to look at the companies.”

Companies run by the signatories have given an additional £2 million bringing the total donations from tax letter signatories to a stunning £2,484,804. Going through the list it turns out that:

• Aggregate Industries have given £100,500

• JCB have given £616,010 in cash donations and £118,177 non-cash donations

• Bestway Cash & Carry have given £28,852

• Harris Ventures (Lord Harris’ company) have given £1,160,730 in cash donations and £25,135.59 in non-cash donations

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Signatories to today’s letter in the Daily Telegraph calling for a stop to the proposed increase in national insurance have given close to half a million pounds to the Conservative party.

The following signatories have made donations to the Conservative party covered on the Electoral Commission register:

• Anthony Bamford has given £86,249.

• Aidan Heavey has given £5,500

• Christopher Gent has given £105,400

• Simon Wolfson has given £238,250

Among the other signatories, Lord Harris of Peckham takes the Conservative whip in the Lords.

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122 Responses to “Tax letter business leaders gave £2.5m to Tories”

  1. James Cowley

    @bbcnews Why are you not reporting this: https://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/04/tax-letter-business-leaders-gave-500k-to-tories/

  2. Henry

    PR Week (14/10/09) reported that the Tories were planning to give Stuart Rose a peerage.

  3. Mr. Sensible

    Totally not surprised.

    Cameron thinks he can pay for this by “efficiencies”, when I seem to remember George deriding the use of efficiency for things like this?

    At any rate, this pledge alone will cost billions, and I somehow doubt that efficiencies alone would save enough money to pay for this pledge, let alone the rest of Cameron’s tax policy.

    And I seem to remember Branson, who I believe has also signed the letter being a non-dom?

    Not to mention Sir Stuart Rose being 1 of 2 chief execs at MNS!

  4. Ollie Cromwell

    Will I think you have put your left foot in your mouth.

    They didn’t sign a letter supporting Tory policy as good for their businesses because they had given half a million pounds. They gave half a million pounds to support the Tories because they believe Tory policies are good for their business and provide a better environment for them to flourish, entirely consistent with their letter.

    This is exactly the same reason that one of the people commenting Charlie Whelan and his Unite union fund Labour, because they believe that Labour provides a better environment for militant trade unions to flourish, entirely consistent with them placing Jack Dromey into a safe Labour seat and Gordon Brown refusing to support the BA staff who went to work during a totally unjustified strike.

    What a terrific own goal!

  5. Joe Laking

    RT @wdjstraw: It gets worse RT @leftfootfwd: UPDATE: Including co's run by tax letter signatories, total Tory donation is £2.5m http://bit.ly/ajXcKW

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