Bamfords Cough Up Thousands for Boris & Liz – Guido Fawkes

Bamfords Cough Up Thousands for Boris & Liz

Last year it was reported that Boris smuggled 27,000 in high-end Daylesford Organic takeaways into Downing Street, funded by business woman Baroness Bamford. Boris has clearly made the most of this relationship, as new publications of members’ interests reveal he’s also got a free stay, worth 10,000, out of it in the month after he, Carrie and the two young ones left No. 10. Keep red wine away from the sofa…

With the 24,000 Lady Bamford gave towards Boris’s boisterous wedding bash in August, it brings the sum to 61,000.

The Bamfords’ donations don’t stop there. Guido notes new leadership donation declarations from Liz Truss show JCB – whose chairman is Lady Bamford’s husband – gave 8,825 to her campaign. Other newly declared donors also include 16,500 from Big Bang Films, 50,000 from Graham Edwards and 5000 from Nigel Vinson.Rishi too found another 25,000 down the back of the sofa – 5000 from Henry Davis and 20,000 from Manhad Narula.

Meanwhile Chris Pincher – remember him? – registered 400 from The Critic, where he ironically used to write wine reviews, before quaffing “far too much of the stuff”at the Carlton Club.

The latest register of interests also sees Sir Keir Starmer registering a 350 donation of band merchandise, including original artwork, from the group Orange Juiceafter seeing them at the Roundhouse in Camden this summer. Their song, “What Presence?!”, is often what focus groups say about the Labor leader…