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Wednesday, 28 November 2007

The SNP has attacked Labour over illegal donations made by David Abrahams  and demanded to know whether any of the money was used in the recent Scottish Parliament campaign. 

The Nationalists’ leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson MP, revealed statistics showing the between the 2003 and 2007 elections Scottish Labour declared donations of £167,131 despite many observers estimating it spent over £1m on the 2007 election campaign. In the same period Abrahams donated £326,975 to the party.

During Scottish questions today, Robertson asked whether any of the money had been used on the Scottish campaign. Browne said he had no personal knowledge of any illegal funds being diverted, but Robertson is demanding more detail.

“The issue of where Labour’s laundered cash was spent is just as important as where it came from. Des Browne’s vague assurance that, to his personal knowledge, no illegal funds were diverted to bankroll Labour’s failed Scottish campaign is just not good enough.

“There is a massive inconsistency between how much Scottish Labour raised and how much it spent on the 2003 and 2007 election campaigns, and so Labour must come clean if any of its illegal donations were used to subsidise its Scottish campaigning. Clearly the current rules governing party funding and campaign spending are not fit for purpose, and this whole sleazy affair underlines why responsibility for elections in Scotland should be vested in the Scottish Parliament.”
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