SNP claims ‘dark money’ financed Conservative election campaigns

Ruth Davidson has been urged to reveal whether ”dark money” was used to fund Scottish Conservative election campaigns last year.

The Scottish Unionist Association Trust (SUAT), which has given the party nearly £320,000, is under examination by the Electoral Commission as to whether it is a permissible donor.

SNP MP Pete Wishart has called on the Scottish Tory leader to confirm whether or not donations were used 0 Ruth Davidson is facing questions over funding

in the 2017 General Election campaigns of MPS John Lamont, David Duguid and Douglas Ross.

Mr Wishart said: “Serious questions are now piling up at Ruth Davidson’s door over the dark money that is funding the Scottish Tories. Ruth Davidson must come clean and tell the public if donations from the SUAT were funnelled into the election campaigns of Tory MPS John Lamont, David Duguid and Douglas Ross.

A Scottish Conservative spokesman said: “Since 2001 the Conservative Party has declared all donations from the trust in the correct way for permissible donations.”