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For any copyright, please send me a message. Boris Johnson could face a new cronyism row after offering a millionaire Tory donor a peerage. City tycoon Peter Cruddas is said to have been put forward for the House of Lords - after giving more than £3.5m to the Conservatives and £1.5m to the Vote Leave campaign, which he co-founded. Mr Cruddas, who founded CMC Markets, also gave £50,000 to Boris Johnson when the MP ran for leadership last June. Downing Street refused to comment on the reports. Former top Tories Philip Hammond, Ken Clarke and Ruth Davidson are also tipped to enter the Lords - with the bids being scrutinised by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. Mr Cruddas resigned as Conservative Party Treasurer in 2012 after he was filmed talking about donations in a Sunday Times newspaper sting. In a transcript published by the Court of Appeal, he apparently said a "premier league" £250,000 donation to the Tories could get a donor into a dinner with then-PM David Cameron. He added: "You will be able to ask him practically any question that you want". The Conservative Party has a publicly-declared 'Leader's Group', in which donors who give at least £50,000 attend meals with the PM and senior ministers. The party insists it follows electoral law. The Electoral Commission found in 2012 there was 'no evidence' any rules had been broken, and Mr Cruddas won £180,000 in damages from the Sunday Times in 2013 after he won a High Court claim for libel and malicious falsehood. Those damages were however reduced to £50,000 when one part of the ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeal in 2015. The Appeal Court said the alleged meaning that "in return for cash donations to the Conservative Party, the Claimant [Mr Cruddas] corruptly offered for sale the opportunity to influence government policy and gain unfair advantage through secret meetings with the Prime Minister and other senior ministers" was "substantially true". Lord Justice Jackson wrote in the ruling: "Mr Cruddas was effectively saying to the journalists that if they donated large sums to the Conservative Party, they would have an opportunity to influence Government policy and to gain unfair commercial advantage through confidential meetings with the Prime Minister and other senior ministers. "That was unacceptable, inappropriate and wrong." The spread betting tycoon was ranked 264 in the latest Sunday Times Rich List with his family being estimated as having wealth totalling £509 million. He said in 2018 he "was very disappointed with the Lords" for having "exceeded their authority" over trying to amend the Brexit Bill. "It's clear to me they were trying to block Brexit, not trying to amend Brexit terms for the sake of the coun
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