Conservative HQ might want to think a bit more carefully in the future when it comes to the guest list for their events. Mr S only makes the suggestion after they asked a businessman who is currently in jail in Dubai to attend an event happening this Saturday.
A tweet from the Conservative’s Team 2015 account saw them reach out to David Haigh asking him to RSVP to the campaign day in Elmet and Rothwell for Alec Shelbrooke MP. It will be hard for Haigh to attend tomorrow. At present he is in a cell in Dubai after he was accused of a £3m fraud.
The former managing director of Leeds United was arrested last year when he attended a meeting in Dubai at a subsidiary of Gulf Finance House, where he had previously worked. On arrival he was arrested by a policeman and within days GFH sued Haigh in the Dubai International Financial Centre Court. They allege that from April 2013 he had fabricated invoices and caused £3m to be paid into his own bank accounts. Haigh denies any wrongdoing and is yet to receive a trial date.
Mr Steerpike called CCHQ to find out whether they were still hoping to see Haigh at Woodlesford railway station tomorrow for an ‘action-packed campaigning’ day, but they are yet to respond.
They have, however, deleted the tweet.
A tweet from the Conservative’s Team 2015 account saw them reach out to David Haigh asking him to RSVP to the campaign day in Elmet and Rothwell for Alec Shelbrooke MP. It will be hard for Haigh to attend tomorrow. At present he is in a cell in Dubai after he was accused of a £3m fraud.
The former managing director of Leeds United was arrested last year when he attended a meeting in Dubai at a subsidiary of Gulf Finance House, where he had previously worked. On arrival he was arrested by a policeman and within days GFH sued Haigh in the Dubai International Financial Centre Court. They allege that from April 2013 he had fabricated invoices and caused £3m to be paid into his own bank accounts. Haigh denies any wrongdoing and is yet to receive a trial date.
Mr Steerpike called CCHQ to find out whether they were still hoping to see Haigh at Woodlesford railway station tomorrow for an ‘action-packed campaigning’ day, but they are yet to respond.
They have, however, deleted the tweet.
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