Labour ‘concealed £12m from auditors’

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Labour ‘concealed £12m from auditors’

By the founding editor | Mon 13th November 2006 - 1:21 pm

From both the Sunday Mail and the Sunday Independent:

“Labour party officials tried to hide details of millions of pounds in loans from auditors examining the party’s finances, it emerged.

“Police believe the party went to extraordinary steps to conceal the fact that it had received £12million loans from businessmen nominated for peerages by Tony Blair.”

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One Comment

The Dowager Marchioness of Wilburton-Minor 13th Nov '06 - 1:54pm

This appears to chime in with the fact that Jack Dromey, the Labour party treasurer, said he knew nothing about the loans at the time of the election.

It says a lot about the English press that we have to rely on a Scottish and an Irish newspaper for this revelation.

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