Who’s Who in “Wallpapergate”, the Boris Johnson scandal that sparks royalty and a billionaire lord

The latest political upheaval to shake British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the controversial work carried out at his official home in Downing Street, he put the leader and the Conservative Party on suspicion of ethical breaches.

The scandal involves a colorful gallery of figures, from the prime minister to a decorator to a billionaire lord. They are the protagonists of the call “Wallpapergate”:

BORIS JOHNSON

The Prime Minister is at the center of the controversy by failing to disclose how he financed renovations undertaken to his Downing Street residence, under investigation.

The conservative leader insisted in recent days to have paid “personally” for these jobs and he is trying to get out of a scandal that could affect his level of popularity, just days before the next local and regional elections in the UK.

The scandal joins other recent leaks Johnson has had to deal with, like the one who assures us that the Prime Minister affirmed that he prefers to have “piles of corpses” to decree a new confinement in October.

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Doubts over the controversial reform of the official apartment of the ‘prime minister’ and his partner, Carrie Symonds, exploded last week, when whoever was Johnson’s top adviser and Brexit ideologue, Dominic Cummings, accused him in an inflammatory message of asking last year that “donors secretly pay” for the work and claimed he had warned him that it would be “probably illegal”.

Under UK law, Heads of government receive up to £ 30,000 ($ 41,800, around € 34,500) to decorate their official Downing Street residence. In that case, national media claimed that the reform in question undertaken by Johnson and Symonds far exceeded that figure to reach an additional £ 58,000 (over $ 80,000, € 66,000).

After his controversial exit from Downing Street in November, Cummings became a bane to Johnson with his leaks and an even greater threat than that of the Labor opposition.

CARRIE SYMONDS

Johnson’s couple and the mother of her young son, Wilfred, would have been the supervisor of the works in the official apartment.

His well-known differences with Cummings led him to divulge “pearls” to the media aimed at damaging Symonds’ reputation..

Among them, he commented that Johnson’s fiancée’s taste for interior design was inspired by designer Lulu Lytle, and that she set out to “eliminate the nightmare of John Lewis-style furniture from the days of former Prime Minister Theresa.

LULU LYTLE

Lytle, 49, is the designer behind the fit-out work at Johnson.

It is co-founder and director of Soane Britain, a company that, according to its official website, “designs and manufactures furniture, upholstery, lighting, fabrics, wallpapers and interior needs.”

Born in Worcestershire and majoring in Egyptology at University College London, she also has a background in antiques.

Lytle is married to Charles Patrick, a veteran investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the couple have three teenage children. They live in a property valued at £ 4million, 4.6million euros, near London’s central park in Hyde Park.

LORD DAVID BROWNLOW

According to the latest list of the richest in the UK published in 2020 by the British Sunday The Sunday Times, Lord Brownlow has an estimated fortune of £ 247million ($ 345million, around € 284million).

He is the one who allegedly donated the £ 58,000 to the Conservative Party to pay for the controversial work, an amount practically insignificant for him compared to the nearly 3 million pounds (4.1 million dollars, approximately 3.4 million euros), which he gave over the years to the “conservatives”.

According to a source “well connected to this party” mentioned today by The Times newspaper, the donor “has done everything possible to deceive all the Conservative prime ministers in recent years.”

I AM ELLIOT

I am Elliot Co-chair of the Conservative Party, has always been, it seems, he was aware of plans to finance the renovation undertaken at Johnson’s apartment and was also aware of the £ 58,000 donation made by Brownlow.

In this spiral of political connections, Elliot, co-founder of London-based company Quintessentially, which offers luxury concierge services, moves like a fish in water through the social circles in which members of the royal family converge. , characters from London, financial center and the ruling Conservative Party.

It is also, nephew of Duchess Camilla of Cornwall, wife of the heir to the British throne, Charles of England.

His email address was copied from an email Brownlow sent to ‘Tories’ fundraiser Mike Chattey, viewed by UK tabloid Daily Mail, dated October 14, 2020.

According to the Times today, in this email, the donor Brownlow expresses his intention to donate £ 15,000, but also refers to the aforementioned sum of £ 58,000 “to cover payments the party has already made on behalf of what will soon be the Downing Street Foundation”.

(With information from EFE)

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