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Emily Craigie & Kristy Dawson

Chief executive of Northumberland business Kilfrost donates £10,000 to Tory MP on Teesside

A North East businessman has donated £10,000 to a Conservative MP on Teesside.

Gary Lydiate is chief executive of de-icing company Kilfrost, which is based in Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

Teesside Live reports how he handed over £10,000 to Tory MP Simon Clarke, who represents Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, in February this year.

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The cash was declared later in line with the rules around donations. It’s not the first time Mr Lydiate has donated to MPs - or to Simon Clarke.

Simon Clarke, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. (Getty Images)

He previously gave Mr Clarke £8k in 2021 and £11k, across two donations, in 2019.

In October 2019, less than two months before the general election, he donated £2.5k to Dehenna Davison, Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland in County Durham.

Bishop Auckland MP Dehenna Davison (Reach plc)

Since 2019, Mr Lydiate has also given tens of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party.

KIlfrost, which has been family-owned for three generations, started out in the 1930s. The business developed the first fluids to protect aircraft.

Mr Clarke and My Lydiate have both declined to comment.

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