Labour Deputy Leadership Race And Donations
Who stood in the election to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party last year?
- Harriet Harman [the eventual winner]
- Peter Hain
- Alan Johnson
- Hilary Benn
- Hazel Blears
- Jon Cruddas
Two of these have already been in big problems over donations to their campaigns - Harriet Harman accepting £5,000 from a proxy donor, and Peter Hain failing to declare £103,000 to the Electoral Commission, culminating in him having to quit his job over it.
And now yet another of the candidates is being accused of having donation problems over his campaign - Alan Johnson.
Johnson admitted last night that the gift was one of four donations he had received that have not yet appeared on the register of the official watchdog, the Electoral Commission. (The Times)
It does seem like the deputy leadership campaign has been marked more by donation scandals after it’s completion than by the result itself, since now half of the candidates have been accused of scandal or corruption - especially since Harriet Harman will be interviewed by police over her illegal proxy donation.
It does seem however, that the Guardian has forgotten all about Harman’s donation problems, since they start their article on Alan Johnson’s problems today with:
And then go on only to mention Hain as the other person with donation issues.
Maybe the best thing for the rest of the deputy leader candidates would be for them to frantically double-check all of their donations, just in case they have amde a mistake as badly as the other three we have seen so far…
Sources: The Times, BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian
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