View source for Conservative Business Letter - Telegraph 1 April 2015

The start of the 2015 UK general election campaign saw 103 UK business leaders sign a letter published on the front page of the ''Telegraph'' newspaper praising Conservative policies. <ref name="Tellist">Peter Dominiczak, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11507586/General-Election-2015-Labour-threatens-Britains-recovery-say-100-business-chiefs.html 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery], ''Telegraph'', 31 March 2015.</ref>

==Signatories==
[[Rooney Anand]]  | [[Surinder Arora]]  | [[John Ayton]]  | [[Alex Baldock]]  | [[Richard Baker]]  | [[Anthony Bamford|Lord Bamford]]  | [[Duncan Bannatyne]]  | [[Robert Bensoussan]]  | [[Lord Bilimoria]]  | [[Charlie Bradshaw]]  | [[Baroness Brady]]  | [[Graham Chipchase]]  | [[Zameer Choudrey]]  | [[Neil Clifford]]  | [[Steven Cohen]]  | [[Glenn Cooper]]  | [[Andrew Coppel]] CBE | [[Gerald Corbett]]  | [[Peter Cullum]] CBE  | [[Ron Dennis]] CBE  | [[Julietta Dexter]]  | [[Annoushka Ducas]] CBE  | [[Bob Dudley]]  | Sir [[Charles Dunstone]]  | [[John Elliott]]  | [[Mark Esiri]]  | [[Ralph Findlay]]  | [[Richard Glynn]]  | [[Ben Gordon]]  | [[Julian Granville]]  | [[Peter Grauer]]  | [[Philip Green (Carillion)| Philip Green]] CBE | [[Michael Gutman]] OBE | [[Wendy Hallett]] MBE  | [[Jenny Halpern Prince]]  | [[Andy Harrison]]  | [[Aidan Heavey]]  | [[Oliver Hemsley]]  | [[Joe Henderson]]  | [[Vernon Hill]]  | [[Anya Hindmarch]] MBE | [[Brent Hoberman]] CBE | [[Cassie Hutchings]]  | Sir [[George Iacobescu]] CBE  | [[Alan Jackson]]  | [[Peter Jackson]]  | [[Nick Jenkins]]  | [[Luke Johnson]]  | [[Neil Johnson]] OBE  | [[Richard Joseph]]  | [[Ray Kelvin]] CBE  | [[Nadir Lalani]]  | [[Ben Latham Jones]]  | [[Nick Leslau]]  | [[Rhydian Lewis]]  | [[James Lipscombe]]  | [[Derek Lovelock]]  | Sir [[Cameron Mackintosh]]  | [[Ron Mackintosh]]  | [[Edward Mellors]]  | [[Tom Molnar]]  | [[John Morgan]]  | [[Matt Moulding]]  | [[Stephen Murphy]]  | [[Jonathan Neame]]  | [[John Neill]]  | [[Nick Newbury]]  | [[Jonathan Newhouse]]  | [[Richard Nichols]]  | [[Mike Norris]]  | [[Tim Oliver]]  | Sir [[Dick Olver]]  | [[Alan Parker (CBE)| Alan Parker]] CBE  | [[Tony Pidgley]] CBE  | [[Thembalath Ramachandran]]  | [[Nick Robertson]] OBE  | [[Richard Rose]]  | [[Lord Rose]]  | [[Chrissie Rucker]] MBE  | Sir [[Nigel Rudd]]  | [[Rakesh Sharma]]  | [[Baroness Shields]] OBE | [[Jasminder Singh]] OBE  | [[Rob Templeman]]  | [[Tidjane Thiam]]  | [[Sarah Thomson]]  | [[Simon Townsend]]  | [[Michael Turner]]  | [[Steve Varley]]  | [[Moni Varma]]  | [[Matthew Vaughn]]  | [[Ollie Vigors]]  | [[Malcolm Walker]] CBE  | [[Robert Walker]]  | [[Paul Walsh]]  | [[James Wates]] CBE | [[George Weston]]  | [[Mike Wheeler]]  | [[Nick Wheeler]]  | The Hon. [[Charles Wigoder]]  | [[Paul Wilkinson (Thorntons)|Paul Wilkinson]]  | [[Will Wyatt (Caledonia)| Will Wyatt]]  | Sir [[Hossein Yassaie]]<ref name="Tellist">Peter Dominiczak, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11507586/General-Election-2015-Labour-threatens-Britains-recovery-say-100-business-chiefs.html 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery], ''Telegraph'', 31 March 2015.</ref>

==Criticism==
Many commentators pointed out a sizeable number of the signatories had close links to the Conservative Party and included a range of donors and business advisers. A good number had also been given peerages during Cameron's leadership.

==Links to the Conservative Party==
===Previously signed a letter of support===
[[Surinder Arora]] | [[Alex Baldock]] | [[Robert Bensoussan]] | [[Ralph Findlay]] | [[Andy Harrison]] | [[Luke Johnson]] | [[Mike Norris]] | [[Michael Turner]] | [[Nick Wheeler]]

===Business Advisory Council===
[[Surinder Arora]] | [[Dick Olver]] | [[Tidjane Thiam]]

===Donors===
====Personal====
[[Alex Baldock]] | [[Anthony Bamford]] | [[Lord Bilimoria]] | [[Zameer Choudrey]] | [[Neil Clifford]] | [[Ron Dennis]] | [[Charles Dunstone]] | [[John Elliott]] | [[Ben Gordon]] | [[Julian Granville]] | [[Aidan Heavey]] | [[Oliver Hemsley]] | [[George Iacobescu]] | [[Nick Jenkins]] | [[Nick Leslau]] | [[Cameron Mackintosh]] | [[Tim Oliver]] | [[Tony Pidgley]] | [[Nigel Rudd]] | [[Malcolm Walker]] | [[Paul Walsh]] | [[George Weston]] | [[Charles Wigoder]]

====Donors through company====
[[Peter Grauer]] | [[Michael Gutman]] | [[Cassie Hutchings]] | [[Peter Jackson]] | [[Matt Moulding]] | [[Michael Turner]] | [[Moni Varma]] | [[James Wates]] | [[Will Wyatt (Caledonia)|Will Wyatt]]

===[[Leader's Group]]===
[[Anthony Bamford]] | [[Zameer Choudrey]] | [[Michael Gutman]] | [[Matt Moulding]] | [[James Wates]] | [[Charles Wigoder]]

===Government advisory roles===
[[Glenn Cooper]] | [[Philip Green (Carillion)| Philip Green]] | [[Dick Olver]] | [[Baroness Shields]] | [[Paul Walsh]]

===Awarded honours whilst Cameron in power===
[[John Ayton]] | [[Anthony Bamford]] | [[Lord Bilimoria]] | [[Baroness Brady]] | [[Peter Cullum]] | [[Annoushka Ducas]] | [[Charles Dunstone]] | [[Philip Green (Carillion)| Philip Green]] | [[Michael Gutman]] | [[Wendy Hallett]] | [[Brent Hoberman]] | [[George Iacobescu]] | [[Ray Kelvin]] | [[Dick Olver]] | [[Alan Parker (CBE)| Alan Parker]] | [[Tony Pidgley]] | [[Nick Robertson]] | [[Lord Rose]] | [[Baroness Shields]] | [[James Wates]] | [[Hossein Yassaie]] | [[James Wates]]

===Friends of the Camerons===
[[Charles Dunstone]] | [[Mark Esiri]] | [[Anya Hindmarch]] | [[Matthew Vaughn]]

===Conservative Party fundraising ball attendees===
[[Anya Hindmarch]] | [[Matthew Vaughn]]

==Former Labour supporters==
[[Surinder Arora]] | [[Duncan Bannatyne]] | [[Charles Dunstone]] | [[Cameron Mackintosh]] | [[Moni Varma]]

==External resources==
*Jon Stone, Hazel Sheffield, Matt Dathan, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/one-in-five-of-the-businessmen-who-signed-protory-letter-were-given-honours-by-david-cameron-and-one-third-are-tory-donors-10148897.html One in five of the businessmen who signed pro-Tory letter were given honours by David Cameron and one third are Tory donors], ''Independent'', 01 April 2015
*Evan Bartlett, [http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/we-combed-through-the-signatories-of-this-mornings-antilabour-telegraph-letter-so-you-dont-have-to--g1OyE1I6Ax We combed through the signatories of this morning's anti-Labour Telegraph letter so you don't have to], ''Independent i100'', 1 April 2015.

==Notes==
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