Sentences with phrase «businessmen peerages»

It was the second time the peer had been arrested by police investigating allegations that political parties offered wealthy businessmen peerages in return for secret loans.

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In July 2006 it came to public attention that Lord Levy had allegedly told Sir Gulam Noon, a businessman nominated for a peerage, not to tell the Lords vetting committee about his loan to the Labour party.

Lord Levy has been named as the person who told a wealthy businessman that his # 250,000 loan to the Labour party need not be declared when applying for a peerage.

This is not the first time the Conservatives have been accused of being too close to wealthy businessman while the last Labour government faced a police investigation over the cash for peerages scandal, and the Liberal Democrats have yet to pay back the money they received from convicted fraudster Michael Brown.

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

«I would nominate philanthropist and businessman, Robert «Bob» Edmiston, who was nominated for a peerage by Michael Howard.