Labour opened their conference with a donation from JK Rowling, the Tories open their conference with donations from "the wolf pack"......  According to the Guardian, a City "wolf pack" is providing much of the donations to the Conservative party.  There also appears to be an issue with donations from tax-exiles like Lord Laidlaw amounting to £3 million. Lai...

The Conservative Party admits mistakes in registering the source of a number of donations, totalling nearly £40,000.

The decision by the Electoral Commission to clear the Conservative party of breaking electoral law by using a commercial company as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats is no surprise. After all the Labour Party's argument that the scale of pre-election donations, running in excess of £1m, to the centre would have meant the Conservative par...

Tories given £5m in last quarter of 2008, but all parties hit by downturn Conservatives took in donations totalling more than £5m in the last three months of 2008 – almost twice the amount received by Labour – according to figures released today. The statistics published by the Electoral Commission showed that over the course of the year, total donations to the Conservative...

The Election Commission confirms that it will investigate more than £3m in donations from a company associated with Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative party's deputy chairman

An Electoral Commission report has cleared the Conservative party and its deputy chairman of breaching electoral law in relation to £5.1m of donations from his company

News just breaking on Sky… donations to the Conservative Party made by Bearwood Services are to be investigated by the Electoral Commission.

Organisation investigating donations given by Conservative party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft emerges as one of party's own donors The Electoral Commission, currently investigating donations given by Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative party's deputy chairman, has today emerged as one of the Tory party's own donors. It disclosed that it gave £100,000 to the Tories in the last qua...

It was in March 2006 that David Cameron announced that the Conservative Party would seek to introduce a legal £50,000 cap on donations to political by individuals, trade unions, corporations and institutions. That pledge was made in healthier economic times,...

The Conservative party faces a formal investigation into a series of donations it received from the family of millionaire Wafic Said.