A Question of Honour

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In 2000, the prime minister made Lord Levy his personal envoy to the Middle East, with an office inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Antiques Roadshow guest leaves expert speechless as he produces Dolly the cloned sheep's fleece - before discovering it's HUGE value Eighty-three peers have declared an interest in finance or banking, with HSBC, Santander and Royal Bank of Scotland among those to have provided paid roles as directors or paid advisers to peers.

Former cabinet minister and Blair critic Clare Short described the issue with characteristic bluntness: The BBC injunction is partially lifted, and the broadcaster reports that Ms Turner had written that she was worried that Lord Levy had put to her a description of "his role in drawing up the honours list which she believed to be untrue".

The 1997 General Election Labour Party manifesto was entitled "new Labour because Britain deserves better". [ citation needed] In the section headed "We will clean up politics", the text pointed to the debasing of democracy through Conservative MPs who had taken cash for asking questions in the House of Commons. A pledge was made to the "reform of party funding to end sleaze" with the commitment to a law to require all parties to declare the source of all donations above a minimum figure, which Labour already did voluntarily. Foreign funding would be banned. [ citation needed] These commitments were delivered in 2000 with the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. [ citation needed] Syal, Rajeev (20 March 2006). "Labour official told me to keep quiet". The Times. London . Retrieved 28 April 2010. He will invite people to his home and maybe invite them to play tennis on his private tennis court and say, 'Well, Tony might just turn up'.But he was also never far from controversy, being arrested and questio Anxiety is rising among senior Foreign Office officials at the peer's involvement in the Middle East and Labour MPs, union general secretaries and some in Millbank are also concerned about the peer's fundraising position.