Conservatives admit breaking the law over David Cameron’s free flight
As Newsnight has reported, the Conservatives have admitted failing to declare to the Electoral Commission a free flight David Cameron received in 2005.
Edward Llewellyn, his Chief of Staff, wrote to the Electoral Commission stating that:
Mr Cameron would therefore be grateful if you could please add this to his declaration with the Electoral Commission.
Which is one way of saying, “oh bugger, we’ve been caught out, we failed to declare the donation within the legal time limit, and weren’t going to declare it at all until those pesky BBC journalists came along, so could you just now add it to the files anyway and let’s pretend nothing happened and all be friends again?”
Oh and he also wrote, regarding another flight:
We are writing to the Registrar to correct the entry in the House of Commons register.
P.S. Of course, this isn’t the first time that David Cameron has run into problems with keeping to the rules when it comes to money. Nor is it the second time. Oops. Ah well, I’m sure he can have a friendly chat over a cup of tea with Mr. Hain about what to do when you just keep on failing to keep to the rules time after time.
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