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Political Parties: Expenditure

Answer

My Lords, the Conservative Party now says that it walked away because of the trade unions, but I remind the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, that the talks related to them were going very well. Indeed, I turn to a comment made by Mr David Heath, Liberal Democrat MP, in the Pink News of 3 January about the Conservative Party: "““Frankly, it's entirely bogus what they're saying about trade union funding. Some of the abuses that undoubtedly are there were dealt with and the Labour party had to move a long way on it. It was interesting that their attitude changed on this subject markedly over the summer at about the same time that a certain Lord Ashcroft moved into Central Office””."

Secondary information

Type

Oral question

Reference

698 c617 

Session

2007-08

Oral question type

Supplementary

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Subjects

Advertising Campaigns Expenditure General elections Political parties Publicity Regulation

Link

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