Mohamed Mansour, a Conservative senior treasurer and former Egyptian government minister who donated £5m to the Conservative party last year has unexpectedly been given a knighthood on the recommendation of Rishi Sunak (who himself is worth £700 million).
A coincidence I am sure, it would be terribly unsporting to even mention that the two events could be linked.
There should be a cap on individual donations brought in, with preventative measures put in place to stop donors benefitting from government contracts (as in the Hester situation) or honours as in this case, until the money is returned in full as a show of good faith. The situation as it stands is just being abused.
I remember when “Cash for Honours” was the biggest scandal of an entire Parliamentary term.
Now it’s barely makes the top 10 leaderboard for the worst thing the Tories have done this month.
Hardly seems worth it. 5 million to hang out in the most basic, lowest ranking end of the ‘nobility’ – your peers are Alan Sugar and Jimmy Saville
I can’t believe I have to ask this but… is this the racist donor or another one?
If anyone wants to donate £5mil to me, I have copious amounts of PPE contracts, I swear! Just hit me up.
This isn’t even news worthy any more.
He just bought a knighthood. The whole system is corrupt.
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Mohamed Mansour, a Conservative senior treasurer and former Egyptian government minister who donated £5m to the Conservative party last year has unexpectedly been given a knighthood on the recommendation of Rishi Sunak (who himself is worth £700 million).
A coincidence I am sure, it would be terribly unsporting to even mention that the two events could be linked.
There should be a cap on individual donations brought in, with preventative measures put in place to stop donors benefitting from government contracts (as in the Hester situation) or honours as in this case, until the money is returned in full as a show of good faith. The situation as it stands is just being abused.
I remember when “Cash for Honours” was the biggest scandal of an entire Parliamentary term.
Now it’s barely makes the top 10 leaderboard for the worst thing the Tories have done this month.
Hardly seems worth it. 5 million to hang out in the most basic, lowest ranking end of the ‘nobility’ – your peers are Alan Sugar and Jimmy Saville
I can’t believe I have to ask this but… is this the racist donor or another one?
If anyone wants to donate £5mil to me, I have copious amounts of PPE contracts, I swear! Just hit me up.
This isn’t even news worthy any more.
He just bought a knighthood. The whole system is corrupt.