Conservatives refer themselves to watchdog over ‘undeclared’ Osborne donations

It’s all in the Mail on Sunday today:

The Tories were plunged into a party donors’ row last night after it emerged that George Osborne secretly received almost £500,000 last year.

… though as you’ll see if you read the piece, ‘secretly’ isn’t quite the full story because:

The money comes from donations to the Conservatives which have been declared to the Electoral Commission. The backers have requested that a specific amount is passed on to Mr Osborne.

But none of the donations – channelled from Tory coffers to the Shadow Chancellor’s office – have been declared by Mr Osborne in the Register of Members’ Interests.