It seems Peter Hain, a cabinet minister, either failed to declare to or hoped to conceal from the Electoral Commission some £103,000 of donations in support of his campaign for the Deputy Leadership. I know I always say this, but I assume even a member of this government will resign after such admissions.
Hain came fifth out of sixth in the contest. Hilary Benn only raised £4,000.
But apparently after the campaign was over and he knew that the Labour Party didn't want or trust him, he discovered £70,000 of unpaid bills and more than half the undeclared money is from the time he went around trying to get donations to cover this.
What I want to know is what sort of person, confronted by begging from a man who had already lost and lost badly, to cover money he had imprudently already spent, actually coughed up. Would you?
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