Trust was a minor

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in the

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formed on 26 March 2010 by Stuart Wheeler in the wake of the Westminster expenses scandal. It unsuccessfully fielded two candidates at the 2010 general election.

2010 general election

Both of the party's candidates were former

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. Stuart Wheeler, who contested the Sussex constituency of Bexhill and Battle, is a businessman who donated £5 million to the Conservatives in 2001. He was expelled from the Conservative Party for donating £100,000 to

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in 2009. Wheeler claimed that his opponent in Bexhill and Battle,

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MP, escaped criticism from David Cameron over his expenses as an ally of the Conservative Party leader. Barker called Wheeler's campaign "an attempt to cash in on genuine public concerns about the Parliamentary expenses scandal by peddling the most extraordinary untruths about my own Parliamentary claims and expenditure." The party's other candidate was Douglas Taylor. Taylor had been Conservative candidate at the

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in 2001, and in Perth and North Perthshire in 2005. Taylor stood again on the Trust Party ticket in Perth and North Perthshire.

Election results

Politics

The party's policies included introducing a parliamentary court with the power to jail MPs who commit fraud, ending MPs' second-home allowances, 'exposure of false claims' about

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, promoting marriage, improving treatment of wounded soldiers, reducing the power of the

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and preventing torture of suspected terrorists.

Dissolution

The party was dissolved soon after the 2010 election. One set of accounts was submitted to the

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noting that the party had no members and no cash or fixed assets, having been financed by private donations, the balance of which had been repaid to the donors. The accounts noted that the party "won little support in the constituencies and decided not to continue". In January 2011 Wheeler joined the

as treasurer.

References

External links

Official website

on the Internet Archive in April 2010

Candidate profile
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