More Labour Party troubles
As if falling poll numbers weren't enough.Alan Carter wrote (thank you) with information about more Labour Party travails. He didn't include the source of the first article.
"Can it get any worse? "Cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper [at left] are being investigated over allegations they are improperly claiming expenses for their second home.
"The pair, who are married, face criticism for claiming more than the £20,000 MPs are supposed to collect on their second home in London.
"Mr Balls, children, schools and families secretary, and Ms Cooper, chief secretary to the Treasury, are now under investigation by parliament's standards watchdog.
"Parliamentary standards commissioner John Lyon's office is leading the probe.
"Both Mr Balls and Ms Cooper deny wrongdoing. Together they could claim £40,000 on their second home but have chosen to take far less than this.
"Some dispute which is their second home – they share a house in Yorkshire, near their constituents, which they say is their main home."
Police hand Labour donations file to prosecutors
"Police have handed the results of their investigations into secret donations to the Labour Party to the Crown Prosecution Service to decide what, if any, further actions to take.
"The case hinges around revelations last November that wealthy property developer David Abrahams had given several hundred thousand pounds to the party but had disguised the origin by passing the money through intermediaries.
"It was the second time in just 18 months that funding scandals had hit the party and came as Gordon Brown was starting to see his once strong public ratings start to tumble just five months after taking over as prime minister from Tony Blair...
"The day after the story was broken by a Sunday newspaper, Peter Watt, Labour's general secretary, quit, admitting he had known that Abrahams' money had come through intermediaries to disguise its origin..."
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