The electoral commission has published the last quarter’s political loans and donations - loans reporting being a new, voluntary aspect of the report.
In the second quarter of 2006, the parties received the following donations;
Conservatives £5,882,374.01
Labour £3,403,819.50
Liberal £782,780.87
The reported loans however, make for interesting reading
Conservative £2,812,000.00
Labour £28,200,693.85
Liberal £584,239.08
editor[at]recessmonkey.com
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Oh my giddy aunt, the treasurer’s report to conference should be interesting this year.
Andrew Brown said this on August 23rd, 2006 at 12:27 pm
From the electoral commission website :
“We have also called for parties to declare details of the loans they receive on a voluntary basis and the parties have chosen to do this in different ways.
The Conservative Party have only reported loans received in the current reporting quarter (April - June 2006), whereas Labour and the Liberal Democrats have included loans previously received.
Beau Bo D Or said this on August 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pm
er and it looks like no new loans for labour at all http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5277918.stm
Will said this on August 23rd, 2006 at 3:32 pm
£28m in loans but no wrongdoing of any kind whatsoever of course.
Matt said this on August 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 pm