Conservatives continue to take money from peer who broke his tax promise

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Conservatives continue to take money from peer who broke his tax promise

By Mark Pack | Sat 3rd January 2009 - 11:18 am

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The Conservative peer Lord Laidlaw was criticised by the Lords Appointments Commission last year for failing to keep his promise to stop being a tax exile if he was appointed to the House of Lords:

The commission said it had informed the prime minister of Lord Laidlaw’s situation and said it would not have approved his peerage if it had known that he would not honour his promise.

And how have the Conservatives reacted to this broken promise and public criticism? By continuing to take money from him, as today’s Daily Telegraph reports:

In March, June and September last year, the married peer made three donations of £27,000 each, through the Glasgow-based company Abbey Business Centres.

He also gave £25,000 to Boris Johnson’s London mayoral campaign.

The disclosure is likely to re-ignite the row over how the Tories are funded.

Questions have already been raised over donations from deputy party chairman Lord Ashcroft, who has failed to say if he is now officially resident in the UK.

Lord Laidlaw has donated almost £4million to the Tories since 2005.

You can read their full Lord Laidlaw report here.

Read more by Mark Pack or more about boris johnson, lord ashcroft or lord laidlaw.
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One Comment

John 3rd Jan '09 - 11:39am

The problem is Mark is that we have great difficulty in using this due to the Micheal Brown affair.

All this story does is neutralise the Brown story.

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