The number of senior Scottish Labour figures caught up in the Wendy Alexander illegal donation scandal continues to widen, with David Whitton MSP the latest name to feature.
As the Daily Record reports:
A SECRET list of Alexander’s donors has been leaked to a Sunday paper…
The entry for First Group boss Moir Lockhead gives David – David Whitton – as the contact.
A sum of £995 is listed though there is a question mark over whether it had been received. It said no money had been banked.
Under the heading “Name/address for Electoral Commission purposes” the list gives the name of former Labour MP John Lyons.
On the face of it, the list suggests Alexander’s team planned to ask him for money but report it using a different name.
That would have been a clear breach of rules.
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One Comment
Until now I thought Wendy Alexander could come out of this with her job and her reputation largely intact.
If her campaign team was conspiring to evade the PPERA rules, rather than accidentally breaching them, she will have to go.