Records have shown that over 120 MPs from the Conservative Party – such as Liz Truss, Jeremy Hunt, Gillian Keegan, and Sajid Javid – had paid £100,000 to the Conservative Party’s in-house web design team, using taxpayers’ money to finance it.
Bluetree
Bluetree is the website design service the party opted for, and the party has denied the company is wholly owned by them. Despite these claims, the party has also refused to deny that it receives direct income from Bluetree, referring to it as ‘commercial arrangements’ with them.
This is particularly interesting considering the company has also described itself as the ‘official website platform’ of the Conservatives, and happens to share the same address as Conservative headquarters. The £100,695 of taxpayer money paid to the company is what finally piqued interest in the company’s connections.
Records specifically listed over 330 invoices between the two, with additional notable MPs that have expensed services including Tobias Ellwood, Ben Wallace, Helen Whately, and Mark Francois. Such widespread misuse of the public’s money has made people question the extent to which taxpayers’ money has been misused, with many notable individuals calling for repayments.
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Rules and repayments
Calls are being made for a thorough investigation into other Conservative investments, with the misuse of taxpayers’ money being a clear violation of the rules.Additional investigations are also being called for, as a violation on this scale could easily indicate further transgressions.
The rules in question simply dictate precisely what MPs can and cannot claim on their expenses, with taxpayers’ money used for political purposes being one of the most important.
As many have noted, nothing would be wrong with this practice had money from the public not been misappropriated. Self-funding by the MPs or the party using their own funds would have been fine, but this misuse, especially through an ostensibly separate company, is a clear violation of conduct.