Some Labour donors get something for their money, if not a peerage, others have had exactly bugger. Find out who won and who missed out in the Tony Blair Sleaze Lottery. |
WINNERS | Donation | Reward |
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Patrick "Captain Pickard" Stewart | £120,000 since 2001 (donor since 1999) | OBE 2001 |
Peter Coates | £150,000 since 2001 (donor since 1999) | CBE 2002 |
Bill Kenwright | £255,000 since 2001 | CBE 2003 |
Frank Lowe | £300,000 since 2001 (donor since 1997) | Knighthood 2001 |
William Haughey | £1,005,000 since 2001 (donor since 1999) | OBE 2003 |
Ronald Cohen | £1,050,000 since 2001 (donor since 1997) | Knighthood 2001 |
Christopher Ondaatje | £1.6M since 2001 | CEB 2000, Knighthood 2003 |
LOSERS | Donation | Reward |
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Peter Thompson | £140,000 since 2001 (donor since 1998) | bugger all |
Alan Sugar | £200,000 since 2001 | Knighthood 2000, nothing after that |
John Aisbitt | £250,000 since 2001 (donor since 1999) | bugger all |
Nigel Doughty | £250,000 since 2001 | bugger all |
William Bollinger | £260,725 since 2001 | bugger all |
Kumar Bhattacharyya | £304,664 since 2001 | CBE 1997, Knighthood 2001, nothing after that |
Charles Peel | £305,000 since 2001 | bugger all |
Sgimund Sternberg | £4,4,073 since 2001 (donor since 1977) | Knighthood 1976, nothing after that |
Derek Tullett | £650,000 since 2002 | CBE 1996, nothing after that |
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By the way . . . Sir David Garrard bunged New Labour £200,000 in June 2003 and had planning permission for his company's Minerva Tower, which will be London's tallest building at 712 feet tall, waved through the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister without scrutiny in January 2004. Similar projects have been subjected to a public inquiry and rejected. Garrard received a knighthood in 2002 after he got his charitable trust to donate £2.4 million to the Bexley Business Academy, Kent. He loaned £2.3 million to New Labour in 2005 and was nominated for a peerage. [But he withdrew his name from the list when the loans for peerages scandal broke in March 2006.] The Minerva company's Park Palace retail centre in Croydon got similar preferential treatment. |