The major Tory donor Stuart Wheeler is to deliver an ultimatum to David Cameron tonight.  If the Tories fail to make two particular pledges in their next manfiesto, he'll take his money elswhere.  And those pledges are:   1. A promise that if the Lisbon Treaty is not law when they come to power, they will hold a referendum on whether to withdraw UK ratification. 2. A promi...

David Cameron will tomorrow pledge to deliver the most dramatic redistribution of power in living memory David Cameron will tomorrow pledge to deliver the most dramatic redistribution of power in living memory as he attempts to deal with the concerns of voters left disgusted by the row over MPs' expenses. In a broad-ranging article in the Guardian, Cameron declares that he would trim back the...

Ian Taylor MP of the Conservative Group for Europe has become the first Tory MP to call for Mr Wheeler to be expelled. He has just emailed ConservativeHome this statement: "David Cameron has said that: "UKIP is sort of 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...

Dear David,Once again, the wide range of Conservative views about UK membership of the EU is in the news thanks to Conservative member, Stuart Wheeler, making public his intention to donate £100,000 to UKIP. Once again we see polarised debate as some people lambast Wheeler for disloyalty, while others feel he is taking a principled stand on an issue he ranks as the most important in this country.

Two articles from the Sunday papers concerning the readiness of David Cameron and the Conservatives to take power are worth reading. Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer and Michael Portillo in the Sunday Times both fire warning shots across the Tory leader's bows, asking just how ready Cameron really is for government. And are we in a new era of open government with last week's publication of civil se...

So Stuart Wheeler, one of the Tories biggest donors until last year, will issue an ultimatum to David Cameron this evening; get tough on Europe or I’m off to UKIP. In the James Goldsmith Memorial Lecture he will urge people not to vote for the Conservatives in the Euro elections unless Cameron commits to a referendum on Lisbon and a fundamental renegotiation of our terms with the EU. The two

UKIP supporter Stuart Wheeler today attacked David Cameron for continuing to mislead the British public over an EU referendum. Following the Tory leader's interview on BBC Radio's Today programme, the spread betting millionaire said: "David Cameron is showing contempt for the British people by continuing to be evasive over his so-called 'pledge' to hold a referendum on the EU c...

There is an amusing outreach programme currently being run by London lefties aimed at the Conservative party and designed to convince David Cameron to be nice not nasty if he wins power. He is going to be in office for some time, wrote Jenni Russell yesterday in the Guardian , so the left had better start engaging with Cameron. As Tim Montgomerie quite rightly put it, the Cameroons are f...

Telegraph View: David Cameron had no choice but to expel Stuart Wheeler from the Conservative Party.