The Fylde MP has been accused of misusing donors’ funds.
Mark Menzies has quit the Conservative Party and will leave Parliament at the next election after an internal investigation found “a pattern of behaviour that falls below the standards expected of MPs”.
Announcing his resignation, Mr Menzies said: “It has been an enormous privilege representing the people of Fylde since 2010, but due to the pressures on myself and my elderly mother, I have decided to resign from the Conservative Party and will not stand at the forthcoming general election.On Wednesday, The Times reported that Mr Menzies had called his 78-year old former campaign manager, Kate Fieldhouse, at 3.
On Sunday, a party spokesman said the money in question had been signed off by two signatories of the Fylde Westminster Group. The spokesman said the Tories would retain individuals on managing such accounts and introduce a whistleblowing hotline. Opposition parties have called for the police to investigate the allegations made against Mr Menzies, and Lancashire Police said it was “reviewing the available information” after receiving a complaint, understood to have been made by Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds.
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