Whose secret donations of over half a million pounds caused a big problem for the Labour Party when they were exposed in November 2007?
Labour party proxy and undeclared donations (2007) "The Mail on Sunday" carried a front-page headline: "How big Labour backer is a jobbing builder who knows NOTHING about his £200,000 donation". It was revealed that Tyneside lawyer David Abrahams had donated at least £548,850 to the Labour Party since 2003 via two colleagues, his solicitor and the wife of an employee, which broke electoral law forbidding the use of proxy donors. Abrahams had had a colourful political involvement with the Labour party over many years. After being honoured with a front row seat in Sedgefield at Tony Blair's announcement that he was leaving office, in November 2007 it
Labour party proxy and undeclared donations (2007) Labour party proxy and undeclared donations (2007) The Labour party proxy and undeclared donations was a political scandal involving the British Labour Party in November and December 2007, when it was discovered that, contrary to legislation passed during the Blair Government, the Party had been receiving significant financial donations made anonymously via third parties. The careers of Labour Party treasurer Peter Watt and the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Wendy Alexander, were curtailed as a consequence. In May 2009 the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence for any prosecution relating to these events. On 25 November 2007,