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[[Matthew Oakeshott]], Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, is a Liberal Democrat peer.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/27086 Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay], House of Lords, accessed 2 December 2011.</ref>
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[[Matthew Oakeshott]], Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, is a non-affiliated peer in the House of Lords, originally joining on the 1 May 2000 as a [[Liberal Democrats]] peer.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/27086 Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay], House of Lords, accessed 2 December 2011.</ref>
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Oakeshott is a third cousin of the ''Sunday Times'' journalist [[Isabel Oakeshott]].<ref>George Eaton, [http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/03/did-lib-dems-know-about-huhnes-points-swap Did the Lib Dems know about Huhne's points swap?], ''New Statesman'', 7 March 2013.</ref>
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==Leaving the party==
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Oakeshott left the [[Liberal Democrats]] in 2014 after he privately commissioned polls in the Lib Dems main seats in the UK to find out whether party leader [[Nick Clegg]] stepping down would affect voting. After leaving the party, Oakeshott said the Lib Dems are heading towards disaster with Clegg leading them and have lost their 'roots, values and principles'.<ref> [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27604131 Oakeshott quits Lib Dems with Clegg 'disaster' warning] ''BBC News'', 28 May 2014, accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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==Donations==
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In January 2015 it was revealed, in the last few months Oakeshott had donated £600,000 to thirty Labour and fifteen left of centre Liberal Democrat election candidates in an attempt to create an [[Ed Miliband]]-led progressive government. The seven sitting Lib Dem MPs to receive a money are [[Norman Baker]], [[Lorely Burt]], [[Tessa Munt]], [[John Pugh]], [[Martin Horwood]], [[Adrian Sanders]] and [[Jenny Willott]]. Of the thirty Labour candidates, twenty-nine are attacking Tory marginals with small majorities and the other, [[Melanie Onn]] is fighting to hold her seat against Ukip. The Labour candidates include those in Carlisle, Hastings and Rye, Hove, and Brighton Kempton in the south; Gloucester and Kingswood in the west; and Great Yarmouth and Peterborough in the east. Another £10,000 has been given to the campaign to re-elect [[Caroline Lucas]] of the [[Green Party]], MP for Brighton.
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Oakeshott described his donations as, "doing his bit to save our country from a Tory government cringing at Ukip".<ref> Patrick Wintour [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/21/peer-lord-oakeshott-donates-labour-lib-dem-candidates-boost-anti-tory-campaign Ex-Lib Dem peer donates to old party and Labour to boost anti-Tory drive] ''Guardian'', 21 January 2015, accessed 26 January 2015 </ref>
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===Political Donations===
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Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
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<tr>
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<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Date</th>
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<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Name of donor</th>
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<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Amount</th>
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<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Donated to</th>
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<th bgcolor="goldenrod" width="20%">Subsidiary (parties only)</th>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">27/02/2005</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£1,250.00 </td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Anthony Rowlands]]</td>
 +
<td align="center"></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">04/02/2005</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£4,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
 +
</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">30/06/2005</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£6,750.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">06/03/2006</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£5,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Chris Huhne]] MP</td>
 +
<td align="center"></td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">26/11/2007</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£5,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Chris Huhne]] MP</td>
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<td align="center"></td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">31/12/2007</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£5,500.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Central Party</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">06/02/2008</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£5,000.00 </td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">31/03/2010</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£2,500.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Vauxhall</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">30/06/2010</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£2,500.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2010</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£8,500.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
 +
</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2011</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£4,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Parliamentary Party In The Lords</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">30/11/2012</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£4,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Parliamentary Party In The Lords</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">27/06/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£6,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Twickenham & Richmond </td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">14/04/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£4,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Parliamentary Party In The Lords</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">21/04/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£3,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Wells</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Harrogate & Knaresborough</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">26/11/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Berwick Upon Tweed</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£3,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Central Party</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">21/11/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Winchester</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">23/11/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">West Dorset</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Watford</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Somerton & Frome</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Liberal Democrats]]</td>
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<td align="center">Mid Dorset & North Poole </td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">10/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Worcester CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">22/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Warrington South CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">08/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Thurrock CLP</td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">28/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center"> £10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Stockton South CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">30/11/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Rossendale and Darwen CLP </td>
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</tr>
 +
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
 +
<td align="center">Nuneaton CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">18/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Norwich North and South CLP</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td align="center">10/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£482,947.50</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Kingswood CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">18/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Great Grimsby CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">31/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Gloucester CLP</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td align="center">16/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Erewash CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
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<td align="center">24/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
 +
<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Ealing Central and Acton CLP</td>
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</tr>
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 +
<tr>
 +
<td align="center">10/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Dewsbury CLP</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td align="center">10/12/2014</td>
 +
<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£20,000.00</td>
 +
<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Cities of Brighton and Hove Labour Party </td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td align="center">19/11/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Carlisle CLP</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td align="center">10/12/2014</td>
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<td align="center">Lord Matthew Oakeshott</td>
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<td align="center">£10,000.00</td>
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<td align="center">[[Labour Party]]</td>
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<td align="center">Bury North CLP</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<ref> Electoral Commission, [https://pefonline.electoralcommission.org.uk/Search/CommonReturnsSearch.aspx?type=basicDonationSearch Donation Search], accessed 3 March 2015 </ref>
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Matthew Oakeshott, Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, is a non-affiliated peer in the House of Lords, originally joining on the 1 May 2000 as a Liberal Democrats peer.[1]

Oakeshott is a third cousin of the Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott.[2]

Leaving the party

Oakeshott left the Liberal Democrats in 2014 after he privately commissioned polls in the Lib Dems main seats in the UK to find out whether party leader Nick Clegg stepping down would affect voting. After leaving the party, Oakeshott said the Lib Dems are heading towards disaster with Clegg leading them and have lost their 'roots, values and principles'.[3]

Donations

In January 2015 it was revealed, in the last few months Oakeshott had donated £600,000 to thirty Labour and fifteen left of centre Liberal Democrat election candidates in an attempt to create an Ed Miliband-led progressive government. The seven sitting Lib Dem MPs to receive a money are Norman Baker, Lorely Burt, Tessa Munt, John Pugh, Martin Horwood, Adrian Sanders and Jenny Willott. Of the thirty Labour candidates, twenty-nine are attacking Tory marginals with small majorities and the other, Melanie Onn is fighting to hold her seat against Ukip. The Labour candidates include those in Carlisle, Hastings and Rye, Hove, and Brighton Kempton in the south; Gloucester and Kingswood in the west; and Great Yarmouth and Peterborough in the east. Another £10,000 has been given to the campaign to re-elect Caroline Lucas of the Green Party, MP for Brighton.

Oakeshott described his donations as, "doing his bit to save our country from a Tory government cringing at Ukip".[4]

Political Donations

Recorded by the Electoral Commission:

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
27/02/2005 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £1,250.00 Anthony Rowlands
04/02/2005 Lord Oakeshott £4,000.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
30/06/2005 Lord Oakeshott £6,750.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
06/03/2006 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £5,000.00 Chris Huhne MP
26/11/2007 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £5,000.00 Chris Huhne MP
31/12/2007 Lord Oakeshott £5,500.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
06/02/2008 Lord Oakeshott £5,000.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
31/03/2010 Lord Oakeshott £2,500.00 Liberal Democrats Vauxhall
30/06/2010 Lord Oakeshott £2,500.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
31/12/2010 Lord Oakeshott £8,500.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
31/12/2011 Lord Oakeshott £4,000.00 Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Party In The Lords
30/11/2012 Lord Oakeshott £4,000.00 Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Party In The Lords
27/06/2014 Lord Oakeshott £6,000.00 Liberal Democrats Twickenham & Richmond
14/04/2014 Lord Oakeshott £4,000.00 Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Party In The Lords
21/04/2014 Lord Oakeshott £3,000.00 Liberal Democrats Wells
31/12/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Harrogate & Knaresborough
26/11/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Berwick Upon Tweed
31/12/2014 Lord Oakeshott £3,000.00 Liberal Democrats Central Party
21/11/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Winchester
23/11/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats West Dorset
31/12/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Watford
31/12/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Somerton & Frome
31/12/2014 Lord Oakeshott £20,000.00 Liberal Democrats Mid Dorset & North Poole
10/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Worcester CLP
22/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Warrington South CLP
08/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Thurrock CLP
28/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Stockton South CLP
30/11/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Rossendale and Darwen CLP
31/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Nuneaton CLP
18/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Norwich North and South CLP
10/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £482,947.50 Labour Party Kingswood CLP
18/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Great Grimsby CLP
31/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Gloucester CLP
16/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Erewash CLP
24/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Ealing Central and Acton CLP
10/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Dewsbury CLP
10/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £20,000.00 Labour Party Cities of Brighton and Hove Labour Party
19/11/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Carlisle CLP
10/12/2014 Lord Matthew Oakeshott £10,000.00 Labour Party Bury North CLP

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External Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, House of Lords, accessed 2 December 2011.
  2. ↑ George Eaton, Did the Lib Dems know about Huhne's points swap?, New Statesman, 7 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Oakeshott quits Lib Dems with Clegg 'disaster' warning BBC News, 28 May 2014, accessed 26 January 2015
  4. ↑ Patrick Wintour Ex-Lib Dem peer donates to old party and Labour to boost anti-Tory drive Guardian, 21 January 2015, accessed 26 January 2015
  5. ↑ Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 3 March 2015
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