“ with Lisa Nandy bubbling under to occupy the ‘Great Offices of State’”
Lisa Nandy, was involved in the latest? (hard to keep up they come so fast) labour scandal when it was revealed that she had received 2 donations from David Kogan who she declared as her preferred candidate as chairman of the new independent football regulator.
He had made two donations to her totalling £2,900. Controversially, the two payments to Nandy were each £1,450, falling just below the £1,500 threshold at which MPs must declare a donation
Nandy has said that “as soon as I was given that information, that same day, I’d put that information into the public domain and recused myself from the process” but the sequence of events indicates this happened after the donations were made public knowledge.
Kogan and his company donated £33,410 to the Labour Party and Labour candidates in the five years prior to his appointment and Starmer also received donations from Kogan and was involved in the appointment process.
Are we really to believe they make appointments like this without checking if the person involved had made donations to them?