Latest editorial
Rich people keep bank rolling Boris Johnson to become next Prime Minister
TORY leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has raked in over a quarter of a million pounds in donations over the last fortnight.
In the same period his only rival for the top job, Jeremy Hunt, has not received a penny.
The latest figures published by Parliament strongly suggest Mr Johnson has consolidated his lead among the party’s wealthiest supporters.
Similar stories
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES