Financial services minister in 'cash for office' row

Peter de Putron, a banker who lives in Guernsey and is married to Leadsom's sister Hayley, also made a further £1m of donations to a party-backed campaign and a rightwing thinktank, the Guardian reports. Leadsom herself said that she was unaware of the donations made by a member of her own family, but a Labour MP asked whether the payments in effect amounted to a "cash for political office" arrangement. The payments from De Putron included cheques to the Conservative party totalling £200,000 in 2010, £66,600 in 2011, £129,800 in 2012, and £204,760 in 2013, made by a company called Glo...