Top Tory donor abandons “arrogant” Cameron

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Top Tory donor abandons “arrogant” Cameron

By Mark Pack | Tue 7th August 2007 - 12:45 am

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David Cameron’s “arrogant Old Etonian” approach has cost him the support of Tom Cowie, who until now has been one of the Conservative Party’s top donors, giving over £630,000 to the party since 2001.

Tom Cowie, president of Arriva (the bus and train company) will instead donate funds in future to the Prince’s Trust:

“The Tory party seems to be run now by Old Etonians and they don’t seem to understand how other people live. They seem to be very arrogant like I suppose Old Etonians can be.”

More details in The Guardian.

UPDATE: Barcharters Anonymous has a good round up of recent Tory troubles, including the story about half their activists in West Yorkshire threatening to leave the party.

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