POLITICAL FUNDING
Today the controversy around the government is of Party donations rather than the Northern Rock, or the loss of millions of citizens’ bank account details.
It is beginning to emerge that members of the government, as well as senior Labour Party members knew far more about Mr Abrahams’ hiding behind a third party in terms of his donations than was immediately obvious.
It appears that Harriet Harman received funding for her campaign for the Deputy Leadership from Mr Abrahams via one of his employees. Curiously it seems Hilary Benn also received funding for the same contest, although in this case it was declared as assistance from Mr Abrahams.
To the many charges of incompetence that are now being laid at the doors of the government and of the Prime Minister in particular, we can now add these swirling, murky circumstances of political funding.
It doesn’t look good for Labour.
