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 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...

Tory backer, Stuart Wheeler, has given UKIP £100,000 to fight the European Parliament Elections. Wheeler says he puts loyalty to his Country above loyalty to the Tory Party. Click here to see an interview with Stuart Wheeler.

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 multi-millionaire who has donated millions to the Tories, has defected to UKIP. When David Camoron reappointed arch-eurofederalist Ken Clarke to his shadow cabinet, he managed to not only irritate vast swathes of the Tory membership but also Stuart Wheeler, their biggest donor. Wheeler warned Camoron that he wasn’t happy and they needed to buck

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

• Betting tycoon protests at 'silence' on EU • Half of shadow cabinet are Eurosceptics, he claims The Conservative party last night expelled one of its highest profile financial backers, Sir Stuart Wheeler, after the millionaire betting tycoon donated £100,000 to the UK Independence party. In a terse one-line statement the party said: "Stuart Wheeler has been expelled...

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...

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...

She would take his money and probably end up running his business. He should go, of course, Mr Wheeler. There's no place in the Tory party for someone who thinks he can buy its policy. I would think this regardless...