Academy “sponsors” donated more than £100,000 to Conservative Party this year

Academy “sponsors”, familiar to Education Uncovered readers, have featured again in the latest published list of donors to the Conservative Party.

Between them, Lord Ashcroft, the party’s former deputy chairman; a business linked to a Conservative-supporting family which controls an academy; and the former minister Lord Nash donated £115,000 to the party in the first quarter of 2021.

The figures were set out in a database published by the Electoral Commission.

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