BBC: Labour was secretly loaned Ѓ14m (UK honours scandal)

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Fri Mar-17-06 05:24 AM
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BBC: Labour was secretly loaned Ѓ14m (UK honours scandal)

Labour was secretly loaned almost Ѓ14m ahead of the last election - more than twice as much as previously thought, it has been suggested to the BBC.

BBC Newsnight's Political Editor Martha Kearney said she had been told the figure was Ѓ13,950,000.

Labour has pledged to name lenders in future amid claims they are being rewarded with peerages - a move swiftly followed by the Tories.

No 10 said it wanted cross-party talks on state funding of political parties.

More:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4815552.stm

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This is a huge increase on the Ѓ10m reported in this morning's Guardian:

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,1733040,00.html

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Fri Mar-17-06 09:39 AM
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1. 10 million here, another 3.95 milion there -- suddenly you're talking

about real money.

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