Revealed: how Tory co-chair’s offshore film company indirectly benefited from £121k tax credits

Secret British Virgin Islands firm behind West Indies cricket team documentary raises questions for Ben Elliot and party

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Ben Elliot, the Conservative party’s embattled co-chair, jointly owned a secret offshore film financing company that indirectly benefited from more than £120,000 of UK tax credits.

The revelation that Elliot has a British Virgin Islands-based company – which he owns with Ben Goldsmith, the brother of the Tory peer and minister Zac – will raise fresh questions for the businessman, whose courting of ultra-wealthy but controversial political donors has already provoked widespread criticism.