Mark Menzies has been suspended after claims he misused party funds
ExplainedTory MP Mark Menzies has lost the whip after “further information” materialised regarding his alleged use of party donations to payamid claims Mr Menzies has used thousands of pounds given by donors to fund medical expenses, and that he made a late-night call to a 78-year-old aide asking for help because he had been locked up by people demanding money for his release.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “The Conservative Party is investigating allegations made regarding a Member of Parliament. This process is rightfully confidential.The 52-year-old was raised in Ayrshire by his mother after his father, who had been in the Merchant Navy, died a month before he was born.
He had also been one of Rishi Sunak’s trade envoys up before vacating the voluntary role following the allegations,Rogerio Santos, from São Paulo, claimed that Mr Menzies paid for his services and later asked him to get hold of methadone, reports said. The sum, which rose to £6,500, was eventually paid by his office manager from her personal bank account and subsequently reimbursed from funds raised from donors in an account named Fylde Westminster Group, it is alleged.
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