The News of the World reports that Stuart Wheeler, the major Tory donor, has written a £100,000 cheque to UKIP and will vote for the party in the European elections. But this is not a straight forward defection. Wheeler says he will vote Tory in the local elections and at the general election. So, the party leadership must decide whether to expel Wheeler and refuse any future donations from h...

The UKIP leader on why he's happy to take Stuart Wheeler's cash - even if he plans to vote Tory at the local and general elections That Stuart Wheeler has been turfed out of the Tory Party as a result of lending his support to UKIP for the European elections highlights one of the major differences between the two parties. Indeed, it highlights a fault line that runs right through politic...

Millionaire Tory donor Stuart Wheeler was tonight dramatically expelled from the Conservative party after giving £100,000 to the rival UK Independence party (Ukip). Wheeler's expulsion was confirmed in a terse, one-line statement by a party spokesman who said: "Stuart Wheeler has been expelled from the Conservative party". The spread betting tycoon had earlier said that he was making th...

I see "Conservative Party donor" Stuart Wheeler is at it again. This evening he will be making a really valuable contribution to a Conservative victory at the next election by making a speech urging people not to vote Conservative. Well done Stuart. Really well done. In the James Goldsmith Memorial Lecture he will urge people not to vote for the Conservatives in the European elections next June un...

The News of the World is reporting that Stuart Wheeler has written a cheque for £100,000 to UKIP. ConservativeHome is reporting this as a defection. It is not. Wheeler says he will vote Tory in the local elections and in the General Election. All he's actually doing is what he said he would do in September last year, as I reported HERE. But the man is a menace. He needs a regular fix of...

Telegraph leader: "The expulsion of Stuart Wheeler from the Conservative Party was inevitable from the moment he decided to write out a large cheque to finance Ukip's campaigning for the European Parliament elections. The contests on June 4 will be...

Stuart Wheeler is one of those rarities in political circles - someone who puts principles before party. While his donation to UKIP and subsequent expulsion from the Tories is great news for UKIP supporters and eurosceptics in general, it has to be remembered that he has been stabbed in the back by the party that he’s

Iain Dale argues that Stuart Wheeler should be expelled from the Conservative Party for supporting UKIP's European Elections campaign but a Tory spokesman, quoted on Radio 4's 8am news bulletin, says that there are "no plans" to remove the Tory...

Stuart Wheeler the millionaire Conservative donor has expressed his disappointment at the Tories' decision to expel him for endorsing the UK Independence Party.

Stuart Wheeler, the man who gave the Conservative Party £5 million, is forming his own political party and standing for Parliament.  Prominent anti-EU campaigner Wheeler, who was expelled by the Tories last year after making a donation to UKIP, will announce tomorrow that he has set up the Trust Party and will fight Bexhill MP Greg Barker at the Genera...