Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick watched a promotional video for a £1bn housing development promising a "new urban oasis" on a millionaire Tory donor's phone before intervening to approve its planning application, it has been reported.
Mr Jenrick reportedly watched the promotional clip weeks before he overruled his officials and approved a project to redevelop Westferry Printworks into luxury flats in east London.
The donor, Richard Desmond, told the Sunday Times he showed the top Tory minister the video at a Conservative Party fundraiser held at the Savoy Hotel last November.
Eight weeks after the £900-a-head dinner, Mr Jenrick overruled a planning inspector to give the project the green light. It is the only time he has gone against