Monday, April 21, 2008

Politics Weekly for Thursday January 17

Parliament has barely been back for two weeks after Christmas and the political world is dominated once again by a Labour funding row. Peter Hain is under strong pressure after last week's Guardian disclosure that some donations to his deputy leadership campaign appear to have come via a thinktank that does more sleeping than thinking. Gordon Brown is also under pressure over a rather larger sum of money - the £55bn that the taxpayer is said to have pumped into Northern Rock.

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