The Latest Breaking News from Lubov Chernukhin

Richard Tice accepted stay at French Riviera home of Tory donor

Reform deputy leader’s trip, worth £1,4000, to Lubov Chernukhin’s property was for ‘discussing gas power in UK’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

Give back taxpayers’ cash for failed ‘fun factory’, Hastings MP tells Tory donor

Lubov Chernukhin was given £150,000 in public funds to help open Owens entertainment centre

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025

Who’s funding the forthcoming election? From supermarket heirs to entrepreneurs

Individual donors have been dwindling in their support of the Tories and flocking to Labour – with some even switching sides

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2024

Labour urges Tories to hand back £5m donation from Mohamed Mansour

Anneliese Dodds questions why it took so long for one of the Conservative senior treasurer’s firms to sever its Russia links

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023

£150,000 levelling up grant awarded to Tory donor’s amusement centre in Hastings

Owens centre, co-founded by Lubov Chernukhin, raises questions about whether public money has gone to projects most in need of it

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2023

Russian-born banker Lubov Chernukhin hands another £52,000 to Tories

Lubov Chernukhin, the UK's biggest female political donor ever, is married to a former Putin ally - and a frequent guest at Tory fundraising dinners where she has bought privileged access to successive Prime Ministers

Daily Mirror · Dec 6, 2022

Tory chair Ben Elliot resigns after Liz Truss announced as leader

Boris Johnson loyalist credited with ‘supercharging’ donations was dogged by controversy

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2022

Top Tory Ben Elliot and donors being considered for gongs in Boris Johnson's honours list

Big ticket donors are being discussed for peerages - many of them members of Mr Johnson’s “advisory committee” of donors who are granted access to senior ministers in return for giving more than £250,000 to the party

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022

Bids for dinner with Boris Johnson reach £120k at Tory Summer Party

The dining experience also includes Theresa May and David Cameron

Wales Online · Jun 21, 2022

Inside glitzy Tory Summer Party where donors bid £120k for dinner with Boris Johnson

Super-rich donors paid thousands to attend the lavish Tory Summer Party, held at London's V&A museum, where they rubbed shoulders with Cabinet ministers, party chiefs and the PM

Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2022