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Posted on Sep 11, 2011 2:44:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Michael Ashcroft and Stephan Shakespeare

ConservativeHome is owned by Political Investments Limited. PIL's two principal shareholders are Lord Ashcroft (majority shareholder) and Stephan Shakespeare.

Michael Ashcroft was appointed to the House of Lords in 2000. A former Treasurer and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, Lord Ashcroft is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He founded the Crimestoppers charity in the UK; is Chairman of Trustees of Ashcroft Technology Academy; Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University; and is a Trustee of the Cleveland Clinic in the USA. The Lord Ashcroft Gallery at London's Imperial War Museum hosts Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria and George Crosses, the largest in the world. He is currently Treasurer of the International Democrat Union.

> His recent writings for ConservativeHome are here. More information at LordAshcroft.com.

Stephan Shakespeare is founder and Chief Executive Officer of the YouGov polling organisation, one of Britain's most successful internet companies and now established in America. A former parliamentary candidate, expert on London politics, he now chairs the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age. Stephan was the first investor in ConservativeHome, sustaining it in its embryonic years.

> His recent writings for ConservativeHome are here.

Posted on Nov 15, 2010 12:06:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mark Field MP to chair ConservativeHome Accountability Board with Lord Bates and Jill Kirby

By Tim Montgomerie

On financial and strategic issues ConservativeHome is accountable to Political Investments Limited, a company jointly owned by Michael Ashcroft and Stephan Shakespeare but we are setting up an Accountability Board that will oversee any significant complaints about ConservativeHome's treatment of individuals or subjects and will offer informed advice on editorial policy.

If any person feels that they have been treated unfairly by ConservativeHome's Editors and have not received satisfactory redress from those Editors they will be able to ask the Board to investigate the issue and the Board has the authority to require an apology from the Editors or publication of an appropriate clarification.

The Board will meet occasionally with the Editors to discuss the direction of ConservativeHome. Although the Editors will remain in sole charge of editorial decisions the Board will offer ideas on how the site might develop.

The Board will be chaired by Mark Field MP. Mark and the Board's other two members, Michael Bates and Jill Kirby, have been frequent contributors to the site.

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• Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster.
• Michael Bates is Lord Bates of Langbaurgh.
• Jill Kirby is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies.

Posted on Jul 27, 2010 9:31:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)