Heather Kidd Asks For More Openess And Honesty

Heather Kidd has called for more openess and honesty as it has been revealed that billionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft accompanied the Tory shadow foreign secretary to key meetings overseas. There also strong rumours that Ashcroft is in line for a top foreign policy role in any future Conservative government.
Heather said ” His role is a matter of deep concern and shows that David Cameron’s claims to be ‘promoting transparency at all levels of the Conservative party’ were bogus. Ashcroft has been ploughing millions of pounds into Tory marginal seats. Some shadowy Tory fund raising groups such as the City and Industrial Liaison Council, the Midlands Industrial Council and Marginal Magic (which has donated to the Ludlow Conservatives) may well have benefited, and yet he will not come clean about his financial status.”
Ashcroft has been severely criticised for refusing to say whether he pays income tax in Britain. With so much concern over politicians and their finances there has been increasing demands for peers to guarantee that they pay tax in the U.K. as a condition for membership of the House of Lords.