TOP TORY BOOSTS HIS WAR CHEST

WHeN, in 2014, long- standing Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin, whose husband was once Vladimir Putin’s deputy finance minister, paid £160,000 at a fundraising auction just to play tennis with Boris Johnson, questions were raised over the Kremlin’s links to the Conservative Party.

so i bring news that, with a possible early election on the cards, Chernukhin has now donated £9,500 to the war chest of Tory chairman Brandon Lewis.

He needs the cash. insurance tycoon Arron Banks, the founder of Leave.eU, is standing against Lewis at the next election. He’s targeting Lewis because the latter supported Remain while his Great Yarmouth constituents voted by 71.5 per cent to Leave.