// For example, his team spent £2,800 on 600 signs, but said only £262 was spent on them during the campaign period. A quarter of the costs of the signs – some £700 – was moved from Mr Goldsmith's own personal parliamentary campaign on to the expenses of local Tory candidates in the Richmond Borough Council election, which took place on the same day – even though they all appear to bear his face and name.
The Goldsmith team ordered 272,000 posters and leaflets, costing more than £14,000 – enough by itself to take him over his spending limit. The campaign said he did not use 62,000 of them, cutting his spending declaration by more than £2,500.
One invoice gave the full cost of the 200 jackets as £2,168. But the figure on the return was reduced by 90 per cent to just £170 on the grounds that not all of them were used. //