By Ross Slater PUBLISHED: 16:59 EST, 23 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:00 EST, 23 November 2013 Shamed Paul Flowers is said to have boasted that he ‘often went for lunch’ with senior Labour figures. The claim was made by a young male escort who says he met the former Co-operative Bank boss many times over the summer and was even invited by him to a party at the home of a Labour peer. Flowers’s alleged boast heaps more pressure on the Party, which last week desperately tried  to distance itself from its former ‘favourite banker’ as a slew of sleazy revelations followed our exclusive exposé of his drug abuse last week.
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Shamed Reverend said he 'often went for lunch' with senior party members
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Labour leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls mentioned in boasts
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The Labour party has categorically denied claims Rev Flowers ever had lunch with either man
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Disgraced bank chief accused of taking drugs at Co-op board meetings
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