The Conservative Party has come under fire for allegedly offering access to ministers at a £1,000-a-plate dinner at the party conference in October.

Via News of the World: TOP Tory Caroline Spelman—already under investigation for paying her nanny from public funds—was last night embroiled in a NEW £100,000 cash row. For the Conservative Party chairman used taxpayers’ cash to pay her top aide, DESPITE him undertaking party political work.

The Conservative Party is offering meetings with the Prime Minister to supporters who pay a £2,000 donation.

LOCAL councils should be offered cash incentives to encourage new firms to start up, the Conservative Party said yesterday.

Conservative MP Bill Cash, who was criticised for paying his daughter more than £15,000 in expenses-funded rent, survives a reselection vote.

The Tories were mired in a new cash-for-access row last night after a leading lobbyist invited his clients to become "a trusted partner of the government-in-waiting", allowing them to shape the Conservative manifesto for the general election. In a letter to his blue chip clients, Peter Bingle, the chairman of the Bell Pottinger Public Affairs company, declared: "Deal with Brown, Prepare for Camero...

Another trougher exposed... Bill Cash, a senior Conservative MP, claimed more than £15,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to pay his daughter rent for her London flat &# even though he owned a home closer to Westminster. During the period he was renting the flat, Mr Cash owned a flat in Pimlico — a short walk from Parliament. Perhaps a scaffold on the green might prove useful?

contribution by Giles Wilkes One piece of counterfactual history that the Right can seldom resist bringing it out against Brown, and that is the Decision to Sell the Gold. But if you do the calculations, and compare that with the Conservative record, the figures look a lot different. And I've done them for you.

David Cameron is considering earmarked cash allocations to pay for public sector redundancies as part of a Conservative drive to cut the cost of government

Another story to damage politics itself. David Cameron is under pressure to pay back £200,000 received by the Conservative Party. The Times reveals today that that the cash was paid by companies owned by a slot-machine tycoon shortly after Conservative calls for gambling laws to be relaxed...