Not all the party donors who’ve had dinner with the Camerons in the Downing Street flat would count as “old friends,” I hear. If it turns out there is a coincidence of timing between someone relatively new to the Tory donation cause and an invite to the flat things could get a whole lot stickier.
No. 10 and Cabinet Office staff are going through the lists of who has been along. Samantha Cameron has had to trawl her diary because the dinners in the flat would be private occasions not recorded officially. These names are then being cross-checked with names of donors.
There is clearly a reluctance to publish the names but that may have to change.
Who is heading the inquiry into what went wrong with Peter Cruddas isn’t clear since David Cameron‘s old friend Lord Feldman, co-chairman of the party, has withdrawn from that role, presumably because his name crops up so often on the dinner list...read more
http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-politics/the-donors-who-came-to-dinner/18664
No. 10 and Cabinet Office staff are going through the lists of who has been along. Samantha Cameron has had to trawl her diary because the dinners in the flat would be private occasions not recorded officially. These names are then being cross-checked with names of donors.
There is clearly a reluctance to publish the names but that may have to change.
Who is heading the inquiry into what went wrong with Peter Cruddas isn’t clear since David Cameron‘s old friend Lord Feldman, co-chairman of the party, has withdrawn from that role, presumably because his name crops up so often on the dinner list...read more
http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-politics/the-donors-who-came-to-dinner/18664
