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...

Stuart Wheeler looses case Even a pessimist like me has a small degree of hope that an obviously lost cause would be reversed in the end however unfortunately that is not to be as the high court have now rejected Stuart Wheelers case against Gordon Brown for not holding a ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Stuart Wheeler: an honourable man who rightly distrusts the Tory position on the EU Sir Stuart Wheeler is well-known as a doughty fighter against the great behemoth that is the EU and, in particular, the continued membership of the UK of that deeply corrupt entity. In the past he has been a significant donor to the Conservative Party but now he is threatening to take himself elsewhere. He can, of ...