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THE TORIES were accused of trying to “buy” the general election last night after funding figures revealed the party has taken huge sums from hedge funds.
Hedge funds gifted the party more than £125,000 in the first week of the general election campaign, according to Electoral Commission records.
The handout from the Conservatives’ big City backers means the party of the rich has raised £15 million more than Labour since the last election.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
