Met probes £37,500 donation to Robert Jenrick's leadership bid
Police are investigating a donation given to Robert Jenrick's Conservative leadership campaign in 2024. Investigation launched after referral from the UK Electoral Commission. This year Jenrick defected to Reform UK.
R1ch1e520Jenrick should never have survived his previous list of dodgy dealings. He only has because the powerful are allowed to continually flout rules the common man cannot🤷♀️
Paul Russell10It’s almost as if they were a bunch of grubby, unprincipled conmen, available for sale to anyone with a few thousand money laundered quid to chuck at them.
Jim 🔥7Surely not this Robert Jenrick? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🇵🇸🇿🇦🇨🇺🇨🇴🇮🇹🇪🇸🇬🇷🇮🇪🇻🇪🇲🇽🇦🇱🇳🇴7I hope to one day see Robert Jenrick behind bars, not least for the zero effort he put, as Sec of State for Housing, into “handling” the Building Safety crisis that ensued after Grenfell while finding time to scandalously/dishonestly sign off a development that saved the developer £millions.
Antifa, since I was born6Wasn't there a suggestion about £1 million being allegedly given to spaffer.🤔 I believe it was claimed a friendly billionaire gave both spaffer and farage that amount? Shouldn't there be an investigation into that?
Stuart Hemingway5Reform the Party that accepts any dodgy money…. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Fionna O’Leary69Two issues. 1/ DID the £37,500 of a £100k money actually came from the US company Innovyz. Innovyz was founded by Gary Klopfenstein, a US businessman who in 2024 pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud. 2/ SHOULD Jenrick, a qualified solicitor, have know this applying proper due diligence?
KD50s5Again, how come it has taken this long and what about Johnson, Gove, Mone et al & PPE. On a recent podcast a Scottish comic revealed Gove had explicitly admitted to her that the Tories were shysters, so what is preventing justice being seen to be done?
R A Turner (he/him)4This is a very good week.
The Met Police is investigating another Reform politician, Robert Jenrick, over donations made to his campaign when he was running to be Conservative leader.
planetmatt8If Honest Bob pulls a Farage and calls a by-election, can Binface stand in both constituencies?
neil02.bsky.social6So LBC thought its fair to air a Reform MP under investigation for illegal donations, to host a show defending his leader of charges of taking illegal donations. No conflict of interest here then.
kaybell27.bsky.social6Probably not a good idea for Reform to send out one dodgy MP under investigation for dubious activities to defend another.
Fraser Wylie4Honest Bob! Say it isn't so.
stvetype.bsky.social2Wasn't it Jenrick who overruled local planners to get his property developer friend speeded through the planning process thus saving 1000's in tax. Which his friend in return kindly donated to the tory party for fixing it for him. Who said you can't buy influence?
Capt'n G.2The million quid bung to Johnson could explain his hard Brexit, NCA need to look very closely at it!
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺15Surprising he's saying nothing about it on @lbc.co.uk right now. Surely, this is his opportunity to prove his innocence. Or is it anther establishment stitch up?
Gary Foskett7#LBC cares not a jot. He's currently doing 3 hours in the @mrjamesob.bsky.social slot. This is the guy who ordered the destruction of murals intended for children. Apart from being a complete charlatan he's a revolting far right fan of Farage - who is currently under investigation for 'donations'!
Katieboo 3I'm now at the Brenda from Bristol stage.
Voteformyniecesfuture2We are not surprised by this at all. They are all corrupt and milking the system for all its worth. Andy Burnham must look at political donations and close the loopholes.
"Police are investigating a donation that was given to [Jenricks] campaign.." Jenrick, lest we forget, admitted that as a Tory govt minister he deliberately helped a Tory donor avoid £45m in tax by rushing through a housing development.
Atul Haria (immigrant)5Jenrick: "Lawbreaking is out of control". www.bbc.com/news/article...
scousin.bsky.social3once a jenrick always a jenrick.
remimulegend.bsky.social1It really is something the amount of airtime our British MSM gave Reform Ltd considering they only have 7 MP's. Hopefully now the MSM is doing something resembling actual investigation into them, people may finally see that they're nothing but chancers who don't care about the working class.
Kevin Theobald1Who can forget ‘Brown Envelope Bobby’.
Dennis Patton1Prisons will be full with Bob, Dickie and Nige.
LBC Callers Savage Robert Jenrick Over Farage's Decision To Trigger By-Election www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lbc-ca...
Steve43Honest Bob Jenrick. Nasty bit of work who's sold whatever soul he had.
thykehyde.bsky.social29I tried - I really tried to listen but just couldn't stand it and I thought my husband was going to implode, so I had to change channels 😂 Come back @mrjamesob.bsky.social
mrgreenskye.bsky.social27At least the woman who has plans to leave the country if things don’t change seemed to like him! I don’t know for sure but she sounded like a regular LBC reform caller. What a shock for her if she gets treated badly as an immigrant wherever she goes!
Koopa T24He just spoke over anyone who made a decent point that put him under scrutiny, and filibustered some callers who had decent things to say. But that answer he gave about the mural was 🤮
#FBPE. DMs will be ignored.13When I heard the news that he was running away from his responsibilities, again, I also wondered what his game was. Because he's a fucking grifter, pure and simple.
Ian clift 9Will all those ex Tories who Joined Reform all join, Count Bin Face Party When Farage loses the By - election. They have No shame.
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, has joined the campaign to attack the institutional structures that will hold Farage to account. It's nakedly obvious what they're doing, and they need to be called out every time. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
![Jenrick describes standards committee inquiry into Farage as 'kangaroo court'
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, has joined Nigel Farage, his party leader, in accusing the standards committee of being biased against him. (See 11.09am.)
Jenrick described the committee as “a bit of a kangaroo court” – using a phrase that Reform UK has been using in private, and one that led to the privileges committee toughening the penalty it imposed on Boris Johnson after he accused it of being a kangaroo court.
Speaking on his LBC phone-in this morning, Jenrick said:
[Farage is] holding the byelection because it was inevitable there was going to be one. All the political party leaders have totally prejudged the situation.
Kemi Badenoch put out a tweet saying that they wouldn’t field the candidate in this byelection, but they would in the next one. Well, how does she know there’s even going to be another one?
She’s obviously hoping, planning for there to be one, and so Nigel, not unreasonably, concluded that it’s a bit of a kangaroo court. It’s a stitch up. They’re going to call a byelection at some point. So for his sake, but also for his constituents’ sake, let’s just get it done.
Jenrick was referring to the possibility that the standards inquiry into Farage will lead to him being suspended from the Commons for at least 10 days, which would mean a recall byelection could take place.
On LBC Jenrick also claimed it would be pointless to have a subsequent recall byelection in Clacton after the one in August. He said:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/bafkreigpxpsoz6gdh76iko2gjbbaicek32uyttvv4jzma2pu3s7dom6gpi)
Eliot Higgins134Understand, this is the Reform leadership purposely attacking the accountability structures that functional democracies rely on this. What they're doing is fundamentally anti-democratic, not just political gamesmanship. Don't expect them to be any different if they win the general election.
Tim Lowe1Dear British Yellow Press, this is your call to action. You worthless bought and paid for, turncoats. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @news.sky.com @channel4news.bsky.social @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com
I love how this would be a Tory scandal if Jenrick hadn’t defected. Reform UK have literally imported scandals from the Conservatives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
