Lord Ashcroft pays £1.5m for double VC
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
A TORY peer has paid nearly £1.5m for the only double Victoria Cross awarded during the first world war.
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Lord Ashcroft pays record price for 'ultimate' Victoria Cross
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The "ultimate" gallantry medal - the only double Victoria Cross from the Great War - has been bought by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft for a world record price of nearly £1.5 million.
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Tory donor probe 'could drag on'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Electoral Commission is accused of dragging its feet over a probe into donations to the Tories by the company of Lord Ashcroft.
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David Cameron takes the biscuit with third session on mumsnet
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tory leader wows website beloved of modern mothers and declares oatcakes (with butter and cheese) as his favourite biscuit By the time the Tory leader logged on to mumsnet with the words " Hello, this is David Cameron signing in ," there were already more than 250 questions waiting for him. Only one or two of them appeared to be about biscuits. The mumsnet live chat has been a staple of...
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Exclusive: Ashcroft's bank lent millions to disgraced premier
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Companies linked to Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, helped finance the lavish lifestyle of the disgraced prime minister of Turks and Caicos islands, an Independent investigation has found.
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“Electoral watchdog under fire as Lord Ashcroft inquiry threatens to run into election”
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
From today’s Observer: Controversy over Lord Ashcroft’s donations to the Conservative party deepened last night after Labour MPs demanded an urgent meeting with Britain’s elections watchdog. Placing more pressure on the Tories, Labour MPs want to know why the Electoral Commission’s official inquiry into an Ashcroft-controlled company, which has given £3m to the party,...
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How to make William Hague look shifty
A comfortable place (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Ask him about Lord Ashcroft's tax status. Watch him wriggle on the Andrew Marr show . And then ask yourself why the Independent, of all papers, is suddenly being nice to the Tory party with the headline: " Tories finally come clean on Ashcroft tax status " It quotes William Hague as saying: "My conclusion, having asked him, is that he fulfilled the obligations that were imposed on him...
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Could Labour's cash crisis cripple the election campaign?
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A couple of important stories have done the rounds in the past 24 hours about Labour's continued cash crisis, and the impact it could have on the party's general election campaign. The Sunday Times reported yesterday that: "Labour's banks have imposed a recruitment freeze on head office, and the party is operating just 20 of the 80 telephone lines it usually runs...
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Tories finally come clean on Ashcroft tax status
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Conservative Party sought to defuse the controversy over its deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft, yesterday by confirming that he is paying tax in Britain.
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Questions remain over the Conservatives’ largest donor’s UK residency
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
William Hague’s assertion on The Andrew Marr Show this morning that Lord Ashcroft is now a UK resident would do well to remember similar claims made by the Conservatives’ largest donor. In 1990, when he was made a life peer, he told The Times that he recognised the public concern about foreign funding of British [...]
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That great civil libertarian, Clive Stafford Smith
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Seems to think that we should all be slaves to the State even if we decide we don’t want to live in the UK. The latest contretemps about Lord Ashcroft acting out the role of Conservative party honcho, while refusing to disclose whether he files taxes in the UK, raises a broader issue: why can any [...]
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Tax avoidance by UK citizens abroad
Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
With particular reference to the case of Lord Ashcroft this article takes a stand against the way in which UK citizens can avoid UK tax by living abroad . It is one thing if the entity they are living in is another "normal" state. But, if it is a tax haven, then they will not be paying tax on a lot of their income - even if it has been originally obtained from activities in the UK and other...
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Will it all unravel?
Borthlas (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It's been clear for a while that the Tories have been taking a major risk by accepting massive donations from Lord Ashcroft, but I was still astounded at the news that they are compounding that risk by including him in formal meetings overseas, let alone potentially lining him up for a senior role in government. The Electoral Commission have yet to conclude their investigation into the legality of...
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Billionaire donor Lord Ashcroft tipped for top Tory foreign job
Enemies of the People (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft was embroiled in fresh controversy last night after it emerged that he accompanied the shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas, amid rumours that he will be given a top foreign policy role in a future Conservative government. The Observer can reveal that the peer, who pumps millions of pounds into [...]
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Horses for courses
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Today's Observer gives an interesting glimpse into the sort of government that David Cameron may lead with speculation that billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft may be given a top foreign policy role in a future Conservative government. The source of this sopeculation is that he has accompanied the shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas. The paper says that the peer, who pumps millions of...