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Gordon Brown attacks 'scandal' of Lord Ashcroft donations

Gordon Brown From The Observer By Toby Helm

Published 7 February 2010

Gordon Brown has thrust the issue of Tory party donations to the centre of the election campaign by declaring that the secrecy surrounding its biggest financial backer – Lord Ashcroft – is "a scandal". In an exclusive interview with the Observer, in which he spoke at length of the need to restore faith in politics following the controversy over MPs' expenses, the prime minister attacked the lack of transparency over the peer's financial links to…