Sunday, 29 June 2008

More Sleaze,more problems for Brown and for Jacqui Smith

Another Sunday morning and more problems for Gordon Brown.Many of the papers saying that he will plunged into crisis over the resignatio of Wendy Alexander and the forhcoming by election in Glasgow East but it doesn't end there.

The Sunday Times carries a report on its front page that Labour's Donors are falling out of favour with the party,according to the paper


Key donors who bankrolled new Labour are now reluctant to support Brown, claiming he lacks the qualities required to salvage the party’s fortunes.
— The millionaire businessman Sir Maurice Hatter, who has donated more than £176,000 to the party since 2001, said it was time for a change of leader.
“He hasn’t got the charisma,” he said. “He was a good number two, but he is not a number one. I just don’t think he is a prime minister.”


The Observer meanwhile focuses on problems for the Home Secretary

The home secretary is at the centre of the worst race row to engulf the police service for almost a decade as chief constables stand accused of blocking an inquiry into discrimination against Muslim officers.
Jacqui Smith will be asked to intervene tomorrow after the damning revelation that at least 20 police forces refused to co-operate with the first audit into the treatment of Muslim and black officers. Information from those forces that did take part suggested there was routine racial discrimination against them.


The Mail meanwhile discovers another political sleaze story claiming that

More than 100 MPs are using their expenses to commit a multi-million-pound tax dodge, it was claimed last night.
They are accused of using huge sums in parliamentary allowances to fund a second home while telling HM Revenue & Customs that it is in fact their main home.
Because MPs' second homes are usually in London, where property is more expensive, they can avoid massive capital gains tax bills by nominating the second home as their main home, because main homes are exempt from the tax.

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