Boris Johnson accepted free lodging value £10,000 from the spouse of the main Tory donor who hosted his marriage ceremony social gathering this summer season, it has emerged.
The up to date register of MPs’ pursuits reveals that the previous prime minister accepted a £10,000 present from Woman Carole Bamford, for “concessionary use of lodging for me and my household in September”.
Lord Anthony Bamford, a pro-Brexit Conservative peer who’s chairman of development tools producer JCB, has been a serious Tory donor for many years. The billionaire entrepreneur, who supported Johnson’s profitable management bid in 2019, has given greater than £10m in donations and items to the social gathering since 2001.
The most recent register of MPs’ pursuits knowledge revealed this week reveals Liz Truss additionally accepted an £8,000 donation from Bamford, to cowl “transport” throughout her management marketing campaign.
It comes after the register confirmed that the prime minister was given greater than £500,000 for her management marketing campaign. Round half of that got here from donors linked to hedge fund bosses, enterprise capitalists and different Metropolis financiers.
In July, Bamford hosted Boris and Carrie Johnson as they celebrated their marriage ceremony, which came about throughout lockdown within the grounds of his 18th-century mansion Daylesford Home within the Cotswolds. Johnson had deserted plans to carry the celebration on the prime minister’s official nation residence, Chequers in Buckinghamshire. The “festival-esque” celebration is alleged to have included a metal band, rum punch, Abba songs and a conga.
A earlier register of MPs’ monetary pursuits confirmed that JCB paid Johnson £10,000 three days earlier than he gave a speech at its headquarters in January 2019 during which he repeatedly praised the corporate’s enterprise acumen and innovation. The speech in Staffordshire was primarily about Brexit, however talked about JCB quite a lot of occasions, noting initially how the corporate had bought almost 750,000 models of 1 mannequin of digger.
He crashed a digger displaying the slogan “Get Brexit Performed” by means of a wall of pretend bricks marked “Gridlock” throughout a go to to a JCB manufacturing unit in a stunt through the 2019 common election marketing campaign.
In 2022 Johnson confronted a backlash after utilizing a go to to India go to to as soon as once more hail the success of JCB, over the usage of its equipment within the mass demolition of properties.
Amid a fierce row in regards to the demolition of primarily Muslim settlements in an space of Delhi hit by communal violence, TV footage confirmed JCB bulldozers getting used to flatten properties.