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DAVID CAMERON pimped himself out to big business backers at the Tories’ secretive Black and White ball fund-raiser on Monday night.
Super-rich Tory supporters who paid £15,000 a pop were guaranteed to be seated on a table with the Prime Minister or one of his Cabinet ministers.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, Justice Secretary Michael Gove and Business Secretary Sajid Javid all took a break from running the country to schmooze with donors.
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
