Millionaire Tory donor married to Holly Valance offers shock assist to Labour

The millionaire property tycoon married to former Neighbours star Holly Valance has backed Labour coming to energy – simply two days after attending a Liz Truss speech.

Nick Candy stated it is “probably time for a change” and praised opposition chief Keir Starmer in a shock swap. It comes simply over 48 hours after he was seen on the launch of a right-wing Tory faction, the Popular Conservatives.

His resolution is available in distinction to remarks made by Ms Valance on Tuesday when she stated folks develop into extra proper wing as they become older. She additionally voiced her admiration for Ms Truss, Sir Jacob Rees Mogg and Tory loudmouth Lee Anderson.

During her speech on the occasion, Ms Truss claimed the nation is filled with “secret” conservatives, however her phrases seem to not have satisfied Mr Candy.

Speaking to Bloomberg’s In the City podcast, the businessman criticised Conservative infighting, with rival teams piling strain on Rishi Sunak. He went on to explain Mr Starmer as a “a decent man with good values and good morals”. Mr Candy has donated a whopping £290,000 to Tory coffers, Electoral Commission figures reveal, while his company Candy & Candy, gave an additional £73,706 since 2009.

In 2022 The Mirror reported he and Ms Valance attended a lavish £120,000 a plate dinner with Boris Johnson and different cupboard members together with Ms Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Therese Coffey and Sajid Javid.

Mr Candy married actress and pop star Ms Valance in 2012, in a £3 million ceremony in Beverly Hills. He is a billionaire and prominent Conservative party supporter and donor. He backed Tory Shaun Bailey’s unsuccessful campaign to be Mayor of London in 2021 – and was pictured at the notorious lockdown rule-breaking Christmas Party held in Conservative HQ that December.

His comments about Tory infighting come after his wife gave a gushing interview to GB News saying lefties have “c*** concepts”. Ms Valance, 40, said in a TV interview after the event: “Everyone begins off as a leftie after which wakes up in some unspecified time in the future after you begin earning profits, working, making an attempt to run a enterprise, making an attempt to purchase a house after which realise what c*** concepts all of them are. And then you definately go to the fitting.”

She made the remark at the launch of the new group, which saw Ms Truss accuse her colleagues of failing to stand up for conservative values. She went on to claim environmentalists and LGBTQ rights campaigners are “extremists” and repackaged Communists.

At the same event former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson claimed only the “odd weirdo” raises inexperienced points on the doorstep. Former UKIP chief Nigel Farage watched on as Tory rising star Mhairi Fraser, who just lately described Donald Trump as “extremely refreshing”, lashed out at Rishi Sunak’s proposed smoking ban.