THE Conservative Party has been fined £10,000 for sending 51 emails in Boris Johnson’s name to people who did not want to receive them.
In a breach of data laws described as “serious” by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the emails, which addressed the recipients by name, were sent out over eight days in July 2019 after Mr Johnson became party leader and Prime Minister.
They set out Tory priorities, including on Brexit, the NHS and police officer numbers, and urged those who received the messages to join the party.
The ICO found that, because the party had switched email provider, it had not properly recorded that 51 subscribers had asked to be removed from marketing lists.
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