Labour leader says police ‘should be involved’ after Tory MP was alleged to have misused campaign funds to pay off ‘bad people’
Keir Starmer has called for a police investigation into allegations that campaign funds were misused by the MP Mark Menzies, who has lost the Conservative whip.
Starmer told reporters during a visit to Teesside: “There are obviously a lot of unanswered questions in relation to these allegations. Not least why it seems the Conservative party took so long to act and whether they’ve reported this to the police, who it seems to me should be involved in this. He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “I understand that CCHQ have been aware for it for a while and have been investigating, and I think some new investigation has come to light subsequently.”
Hours later, the sum had risen to £6,500, and was said to have been paid from the personal savings of Menzies’ constituency officer manager. She was reported to have been reimbursed from campaign donations. Anneliese Dodds, the Labour party chair, wrote on Thursday to the Conservative party chair, Richard Holden, questioning what she said was an apparent lack of action in relation to the “disturbing” allegations.
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