As Johnson accused of ‘cover-up’ over Kremlin interference, major new Russian donations to Conservatives revealed – despite previous Tory pledge to distance themselves from Russian money.
Channels opened between Downing Street and the Brexit Party. Arron Banks prepared to donate substantial funds to Tories if a pact with Farage put in place
Jeremy Hunt promises £15bn extra, while on Boris Johnson’s side a former defence secretary wants to buy huge floating bases the navy would be hard pressed to defend.
Tory prime minister hopeful, who pledged to suspend Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit, had an undeclared meeting with a ‘dark money’-funded think tank promoting a hard Brexit.
The Brexit Party’s project isn’t about real democracy. But their skewed narrative is gaining alarming traction, including amongst Tory leadership contenders.
Tory hopefuls under fire for accepting cash from company linked to major ‘climate science denial’ group. Johnson has yet to declare the funding, ‘raising questions about who else is bankrolling him’.
Most working people, the young, the poor and middling including many Brexit voters, much of middle England and almost all Scots, will lose out under Johnson's plan. But he doesn’t care.
