Secret foreign cash funded Tory campaign
David Cameron's Conservative party continue to be tainted with charges of sleaze regarding the accepting of "loans" prior to the last British election.
The Tories, it now transpires, have repaid £5 million - some of it to overseas contributors - rather than allow the naming of who exactly these contributors were.
The Labour party chairman, Ian McCartney, called on the Tories to reveal the sources of overseas loans. "This Labour government outlawed foreign donations to prevent those from outside this country interfering with our democracy," he said. "But the Tories have now revealed they deliberately tried to get round this ban by taking foreign loans.
"We now need to know who these people are; where they reside; where they pay tax; how much they lent; and on what terms. By failing to provide these details, the Conservatives and David Cameron are fuelling suspicions that they have even more to hide."
What started out as a problem for the Labour Party (who accepted £14 million in "loans") is swiftly turning into a Tory problem - as they, it is claimed, accepted nearly £25 million in undisclosed "loans".
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