By Glen Owen PUBLISHED: 20:07 EST, 12 January 2013 | UPDATED: 02:53 EST, 14 January 2013 Ed Miliband was last night accused of trying to cover up a donation from a controversial banker who has faced calls to be stripped of his knighthood. Sir Victor Blank – the former Lloyds TSB chairman blamed by shareholders for the bank’s humiliating £21 billion taxpayer bailout – gave £10,000 to Labour just days after Mr Miliband made a major speech attacking bankers’ behaviour. Sir Victor paid the money by bidding at a Labour fundraising auction for a set of handwritten team talk notes by Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
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Former Lloyds TSB chairman Sir Victor Blank paid £10k for Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson's team talk notes at Labour fundraising auction
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Ed Miliband gave speech criticising bankers' behaviour just days before
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Tory MP Andrew Bridgen asked the Electoral Commission to investigate whether the Labour leader attempted to cover up Sir Victor’s donation
In his letter, Mr Bridgen says ‘the public will want to be assured that the @placeholder did not purposefully cover up his donation to avoid negative media coverage’.
A Labour Party spokesman said: ‘This was an administrative error by the @placeholder which we have already corrected with the Electoral Commission,’ adding that it was now recorded as a personal donation by Sir Victor.