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Now, Labour leader attacked for NOT packing Lords with party donors
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Nov 20, 2010 11:03am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Sunder Katwala |
| News Date | Saturday, November 20, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Labour party got a lot of flak over the "cash for honours" inquiry across 2006 and 2007, which finally ended with nobody facing charges.
How things change.
Saturday's Times front-page splash sees Ed Miliband attacked for "snubbing" party donors - because only one of the ten new Labour peers had been a party donor, Sir Gulam Noon.
The newspaper's report says that Gordon Brown was considering offering working peerages to more party donors - Nigel Doughty, Sir Ronald Cohen and fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn - but that Miliband decided not to make those nominations.
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