Sentences with phrase «undeclared donations»
Conservative councillor Peter Golds asked the police and the Electoral Commission to investigate Rahman for alleged undeclared donations from Brick Lane restaurateur Shiraj Haque to fund Rahman's legal action against the Labour Party.
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The Electoral Commission, which referred undeclared donations to Mr Hain worth more than # 100,000 to the Metropolitan police last week, is already investigating proxy donations to Labour from property developer David Abrahams.
The air of scandal - combined with Peter Hain's apology to MPs over undeclared donations to his deputy party leadership campaign - was nothing compared to the trouble to come.
Mr Cameron's decisive action was contrasted by Tory insiders to Gordon Brown's «dithering» over Peter Hain's undeclared donations of # 103,000 for three weeks before accepting his resignation last week.
Mr Hain had told the Electoral Commission he received # 82,000 but further undeclared donations have since come to light from City and business figures, as well as a # 10,000 sum from the GMB union.
Not exact matches
This is what we know: the Electoral Commission is still assessing claims that potentially illegal donations were made; the information commissioner is investigating «possible illegal» use of data; the heads of MI6 and GCHQ have both voiced unprecedented warnings about foreign interference in our democratic systems; the government has refused to elaborate on what these are; one of the leave campaigns has admitted the undeclared support and help of the American hedge fund billionaire who backed Trump; the Crown Prosecution Service is being asked to mount a criminal investigation; and questions have been raised about possible unlawful collaboration between different elements of the leave campaign.
The Cabinet member insists the donations went undeclared as a result of an administrative error.
Ben Brogan notes that Labour is doing its best to big up the Osborne donations story but there really is no comparison with Peter Hain's undeclared # 103,000.