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Mark Pack

‘Tory bungs £22k for a leaflet’

By Mark Pack | Tue 26th May 2009 - 3:15 pm

Thus writes The Sun:

A TORY Euro MP paid her husband £22,500 to help her write a 15-page leaflet on waste management, The Sun can reveal.

Caroline Jackson, 62, initially failed to declare the payment.

She then disguised the size of the payout to hubby Robert by splitting it into three and listing each part as between £0 and £10,000”.

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More Euro troubles for Conservatives as donor backs UKIP

By Mark Pack | Sat 28th March 2009 - 7:04 pm

Fresh on the heels of the news that Conservative MEP Caroline Jackson is thinking of quitting the Conservative Party comes this news via The News of the World:

The Tories’ top donor today told the News of the World how he has defected to the eurosceptic UK Independence Party.

Spread-betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler has written a cheque for £100,000 to UKIP and said he will be voting for them in the June Euro elections …

In 2000, Mr Wheeler gave the Tories £5m – their biggest single donation.

He has continued to back them since, but has become increasingly angry at leader

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Conservative MEP Caroline Jackson threatens to quit party

By Mark Pack | Thu 26th March 2009 - 7:50 am

From theparliament.com:

British Tory leader David Cameron has been condemned as “ridiculous” for pulling his party out of the EPP-ED group.

The blistering attack, from one of his own MEPs, comes in the wake of Cameron’s decision to cut loose from parliament’s biggest political group after June’s European elections.

Caroline Jackson is so incensed by the move she says she is considering quitting the Tory party of which she has been a member since 1963.

“Pulling out of the EPP was ridiculous, is a serious mistake and I am minded to leave the party,” she said.

Jackson, who is retiring in June’s European elections, has

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