30 November 2007

Harriet Harman's Campaign Finances

Newsnight is waiting on answers to a series of allegations against Harriet Harman.

They centre on if she has taken out a number of loans to fund her deputy leadership campaign -- loans that were not declared to the Electoral Commission.

Harman has a fundraiser planned for 5th December in Leicester Square in London, £30 a head, five months after her campaign ended. Donations are being sent to her office in the House of Commons, a no-no, if her staffer is being paid from the public purse.

What is odd about Harman is that she and her husband have six-figure salaries. Couldn't they have avoided all of this by donating to her campaign directly?

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