Sentences with phrase «peerages scandal»

Possibly the public have already factored the loans for peerages scandal into their opinions, or Labour are reaching their real hardcore of support.

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.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

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When police started investigating the links between peerages and donations to political parties, it looked like a scandal that might topple a prime minister and hasten wholesale reform of Parliament's upper chamber.

This «whitewash for peerages» is a scandal that surely raises serious questions about the integrity of Ms Chakrabarti, her inquiry and the Labour leadership.»

In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed «cash for patronage» scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal).

Finance proved a major problem for the Labour Party during this period; a «cash for peerages» scandal under Blair resulted in the drying up of many major sources of donations.

Anticipating Brown's decision to give Sir Alan Sugar a peerage, Clifford talks to James Silver (page 16) about celebrity politicians, political sex scandals and why the Conservatives revile him.

Daily Mail leader:» [The George Osborne affair] is no cash - for - peerages or Formula 1 scandal.

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.

Marie van der Zyl, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: «This «whitewash for peerages» is a scandal that surely raises serious questions about the integrity of Ms Chakrabarti, her inquiry and the Labour leadership.»