Party Funding Debate

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Andrew Bridgen

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Monday 26th March 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I imagine he knew no more than everybody else who bought a daily newspaper.

Andrew Bridgen Portrait Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)
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Does my right hon. Friend agree that we need much greater transparency in the way political donations are solicited, including the £1 million in cash that Labour solicited from Andrew Rosenfeld, a former tax exile and a man whose firm left Allders pensioners high and dry?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I think transparency is very important. As I have said, Mr Rosenfeld is someone I knew when I was chairman of the Conservative party. We turned his money down.

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