George Galloway, Respect and the overseas donation

And now, some variety. It’s a donation story and it doesn’t feature Labour.

Over to the East London Advertiser:

A new crisis has engulfed MP George Galloway’s troubled Respect party after it emerged this week that the Electoral Commission has been called in over a suspected unlawful foreign donation.

The election watchdog is probing a $10,000 cheque from a Dubai construction company that ended up in the bank account of an organisation set up by Respect, the East London Advertiser can reveal.

Even more troubling for Left Wing Respect is the donor company is owned by one of Britain’s biggest private finance initiative contractors, which itself is headed by a former policy chief to John Major’s Tory government.

The Electoral Commission is now making “preliminary enquiries”.