[5][6] Her role was varied, but she was hired to help raise funds for the 2010 general election, which also meant dealing with the party's then £8.5m deficit.

[7] In January 2018, British Investigative magazine Private Eye reported Bloomfield had been forced to admit she had overlooked a personal connection when she had praised the "high standards of reporting and transparency" of financial services offered in the Cayman Islands.

According to the magazine, she was later forced to admit that "a close family member is a director of a financial services company domiciled in the Cayman Islands".

[4] She is also Chairman of the Pump House Project, an arts and parkour centre in her home town of Faringdon.

[9][10] She was also, for a time, a partner at the Atlantic Superconnection Corporation, a fund which plans to build an electric cable between Iceland and the UK.