Tuesday 27 November 2007

That's right Harriet , give it back as I said !

Harman defends Abrahams donation
Harriet Harman
Ms Harman won the Labour deputy leadership

Harriet Harman says she will return a £5,000 donation which turned out to have come from a property developer under someone else's name.

Janet Kidd gave her the money during the deputy leadership race but it has emerged it came from David Abrahams.

Ms Harman said she was unaware of the link between the two and had accepted the donation in "good faith".

Her Tory shadow Theresa May has asked her to explain why she accepted the money after the deputy campaign ended.

Ms Harman said she had received the donation on 4 July, had written to Mrs Kidd personally to thank her and had no reason to think the money came from Mr Abrahams, who she said she had never heard of.

'Spirit of law'

She registered the donation with the Electoral Commission, as coming from Mrs Kidd, as well as the appropriate government departments and registers of interests.

Ms Harman told the BBC her campaign team had strict rules on who to accept donations from, they had to be on the electoral register and they had to be known to members of the team, or already be an accepted Labour donor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7115016.stm


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