A key player in the controversial Westferry Printworks development can be revealed as an investment firm owned by a super-rich Tory donor and crony of Boris Johnson.
It comes as Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was referred to the MPs’ sleaze watchdog after approving the £1billion project following alleged lobbying from site owner Richard Desmond.
The Mirror can reveal the “development manager” is a company which has donated £200,000 to the Tories. It is run by Ian Livingstone, who the Prime Minister appointed to the board of his Mayor’s Fund for London.
Mr Johnson approved the original plans for the East London site during his final days as Mayor of the capital. He was asked by the developers to replace Tower Hamlets Council in
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