Cash for honours: donors say Blair 'misled' police

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Millionaire Labour Party donors have contradicted Tony Blair's evidence to the police in the cash-for-honours affair - saying that they were nominated for their public service to the nation, and not for services to Labour, as claimed by the Prime Minister.

Secret No 10 papers, copies of which have been seen by The Independent on Sunday, back up their claims, putting fresh pressure on Mr Blair over the cash-for-honours affair.

The donors expressed surprise after Mr Blair's historic interview with Scotland Yard in Downing Street last Thursday, when he told the police the honours were "expressly party peerages given for party service".

In contrast, the official nomination documents, marked "Restricted Appointments", say that Mr Blair's "grounds for recommendation" to the House of Lords were the donors' work in the fields of education, health and charity. The leaked citations make no mention of "party service" and cast doubt on No 10's assertion that the honours were not bestowed in exchange for cash.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2081662.ece

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. This is ridiculous. It's clearly in the wider public interest

for this investigation to be dropped. Sometimes what's right for the people who run the country is more important than maintaining the rule of law.

[Greeby]

2. Grab the snacks all

:popcorn: