Conservatives take £27,000 from loss-making Russian-owned company

Aquind, owned by a former Russian oil boss, is bankrolling Rishi Sunak despite making massive losses

Today there has - rightly - been a lot of focus on the Conservatives taking money from Frank Hester.

The latest Electoral Commission data, released this morning, show that the Tories received more than £5 million from Hester's Phoenix Partnership in January - bringing his total donations to over £15 million. 

Sunak's party even accepted £150,000 from the …