The Leader's Group

The Leader's Group is a donor club of the Conservative Party and is described as the 'premier supporter group'. To become a member of the group an annual membership fee of £50,000 must be paid. As a member of The Leader's Group you can expect to 'join David Cameron and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, post-PMQ lunches, drinks receptions, election result events and important campaign launches'.

Set up in 2003, David Cameron's Leader’s Group 'has grown to become a key part of Tory fundraising' according to the Daily Mail, which revealed in January 2014 that the elite dining group had donated more than £43.1 million to the party since 2001. Secrecy surrounding its events has raised suspicions; no list of members has ever been published nor details of the topics discussed ever revealed. The Conservatives continue to refuse to release public information about the group beyond details of those who have attended the events every quarter since 2012.

The chairman of the Group is Howard Leigh.

Donors attending Leader's Group events

Guests include: Alexander Temerko | Andrew Brannon | Andrew Law | Michael Bradfield | Henry Davis | Countywide Developments Ltd (represented by Anthony Gallagher, Director) | Offshore Group Newcastle Ltd (represented by Alexander Temerko, Dennis Clark & David Edwards, Directors) | Edward Eisler | Michael Freeman | Mr Amjad Bseisu | Bradley Yam | Charles Wigoder | Philip Gibbs | DPK Contractors Limited (represented by Rishi Khosla, Director) | Mike Gooley | Arne Groes | Daniel Green | James Lupton | Dr James Hay | Shore Capital Ltd (represented by Howard Shore, Director) | Oluwole Kolade | Dr Mike Lynch | Lord Farmer | Ian Mukherjee | Rajeev Misra | Sir Henry Keswick | IPGL Limited (represented by Michael Spencer, Director) | Melanie Sherwood | Jitesh Gadhia | Ali Mosawi | Broadland Properties Ltd (represented by John Guthrie, Director) | Kenneth Costa | Chinook Urban Mining Ltd (represented by Ferras Zalt, Director) | The Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover | Babatunde Soyoye | David Roper | Roger Orf | Michael Tory | Edmund Truell | Georg von Opel | Roger Nagioff | Edward Wray | Chris Ingram | United & Cecil Club (represented by Christopher Fenwick, Deputy Chairman ) | Christopher Rokos | David Mayhew | David Ross | Gary Lydiate | Hugh Sloane | Ian Taylor | Jeremy Asher | John Frieda | IM Properties PLC & International Motors Ltd (represented by Lord Edmiston, Director ) | Lord Fink | Lord Harris of Peckham | Mark Samworth | Westfield Shoppingtowns Ltd (represented by Michael Gutman, Director ) | Neil Ostrer | Paul Adrian Beecroft | J&H Sales (International) Ltd (represented by Ranjit Baxi, Director ) | Sir John Hall | Wates Group Services Ltd (represented by Timothy Wates, Director and James Wates director ) | Bestway Cash & Carry Ltd (represented by Zameer Choudrey, Director ) | Lady Xuelin Bates | Sir Martin Arbib DL | FIL Holdings (UK) Ltd (represented by Barry Bateman, Director ) | Flowidea Ltd (represented by Henry Angest, Director ) | William Cook Holdings Ltd (represented by Andrew Cook, Chairman ) | Michael Davis | Ravinder Gidar | Jeremy Isaacs | Kevin Lomax | CC Property Company Ltd (represented by Antoine Mattar, Director ) | Sun Mark Ltd (represented by Rami Ranger, Director ) | Sir Paul Ruddock | [Ann] Rosemary Said | James Stunt | Sir Michael Hintze | Sovereign Business Jets Ltd ( represented by Anastasia Sergeef & Serge Sergeef, directors ) | Abdul‐Majid Jafar | Ayman Asfari | David Ord Limited (represented by David C Ord, Director) | George E Robinson | Harilela Hotels (UK) Ltd (represented by Aron H Harilela, Director) | Malcolm J Scott | National Conservative Draws Society (represented by Philip Smith, Chairman) | Rainham Steel Company Limited (represented by William J Ives, Director) | Norbrook Laboratories (GB) Ltd (represented by Lord Ballyedmond, Chairman ) | Roderick H Brooks | Hani Farsi | Lesley A Jackson | Michael Batt | Nisham S Sidhu‐Brar | Peter Harrison | B&S Properties Ltd (represented by Peter Virdee ) | Ramez Sousou | Xuelin Black | Alexander Andrew Fraser | RAB Capital Ltd (represented by William Philip Richards & Michael Alen‐Buckley, Directors) | Alan Lewis | Babyway International Ltd (represented by Graham Leslie, Director) | Headstock Distribution Ltd (represented by Keith Bradshaw, Director) | May Makhzoumi | JCB Research (represented by Sir Anthony Bamford, Director) | David Harding | David Lilley | Dinesh Dhamija | Sir Simon Robertson | Stephen Catlin | Yan Huo | Anne Street Partners Limited (represented by Lord Ashcroft) | Clerewell Ltd (represented by Sir Michael Heller, Director)

2012

• Quarter 1:
• Quarter 2: File:Q22012.pdf
• Quarter 3: File:Q32012.pdf
• Quarter 4: File:Leaders Group Q4 2012.pdf

2013

• Quarter 1: File:Leader's Group Q12013.pdf
• Quarter 2:
• Quarter 3:
• Quarter 4: File:LG Meals Q4 2013 Disclosure.ashx.pdf

2014

• Quarter 1: File:Q12014.pdf
• Quarter 2:
• Quarter 3: File:LG Meals Q3 2014 FINAL.pdf
• Quarter 4: File:LG Meals Q4 2014.pdf

Resources

• Holly Watt, The Tory Leader's Group donor club: 'A chance for like-minded people to talk' Guardian, 4 May 2015, accessed 5 May 2015.