Tory pair say Johnson team may be breaching data protection laws

Minister and former MP ask watchdog to investigate and party chair to launch inquiry. A minister and a former Conservative MP have asked the information watchdog to investigate whether Boris Johnson’s campaign to become party leader is breaching data protection laws. Harriet Baldwin, a foreign office minister, and Ben Howlett, a former MP for Bath, have also asked the party’s chair, Brandon Lewis, to launch an inquiry after receiving allegedly unsolicited requests for support from th