The Tory campaigner who reported the MP for alleged misuse of funds was disenchanted by the social gathering's response
from Jennifer Scottpolitical reporter
A Tory campaigner who reported an MP over allegations he misused social gathering funds has instructed Sky Information she is disenchanted with the best way her criticism has been dealt with.
Mark Menzies voluntarily stop the Conservative parliamentary social gathering this week after a report in The Occasions claimed he known as his former marketing campaign supervisor Katie Fieldhouse, 78, early in the future to say he had been locked in a flat by “dangerous individuals ” and that he wanted £5,000 a matter of “life and loss of life”.
The sum, which rose to £6,500, was finally paid by his workplace supervisor from his private checking account after which reimbursed from funds raised by donors to an account known as the Fylde Westminster Group, the paper mentioned.
However regardless of the incident in December – and Ms Fieldhouse lodging her criticism in January – the Fylde MP had remained a part of the parliamentary social gathering and a commerce envoy for the federal government till the press stories emerged.
He has now misplaced the Conservative whip and has been suspended as certainly one of Rishi Sunak's deputies.
Menzies strongly disputes the allegations, which additionally embody allegations that he used marketing campaign funds to pay his private medical payments.
Talking to Sky Information' Frazer Maude, Ms Fieldhouse mentioned: 'I really feel horrible as a result of I'm a religious Tory and as I've instructed everybody, I reported his actions to the chief whip… it's now mid-April.
“Come to your personal conclusions [about] “what is going on.”
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