... run by pal who helped him seal £137k land deal

LORD Chadlington, one of David Cameron’s partners in the China fund project, is a Tory peer and former public relations executive.

He got to know Mr Cameron in 2000 when the future party leader applied to be the Tory candidate in Witney, where Lord Chadlington, pictured, chaired the constituency association.

The 75- year- old, who founded PR firm Shandwick in 1974, later recalled: ‘You do make your mind up in those first few seconds.

‘He walked in front of the podium and spoke for five minutes in a very articulate and easy manner.’

In 2011 it emerged the two did a £137,000 land deal. Lord Chadlington bought a house over the road from the Prime Minister’s Oxfordshire home so the Camerons could buy a chunk of its land later.

The Tory donor paid £715,000 for the house in November 2010. The following July he sold the Camerons part of the land that came with the house.