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Cameron found guilty over illegal fundraising

We have been waiting for the Tories to be reprimanded for misusing the Palace of Westminster dinig rooms for fundraising. Cameron was involved in that. But in the event he has also been singled out by a separate report.
Submitted by Peter Welch on 29 March 2007 - 11:56am

This is the finding according to ePolitix

A report from the Commons standards and privileges committee on Thursday said he had been "ill-advised" to link funding to access to his office.

The complaints focused on a fund-raising body called the Leader's Group which said its aim was "to support David Cameron, providing sustainable and renewable income for the party".

One of the benefits of membership was advertised as "the opportunity to meet with the leader… in his office after prime minister's question time".

The parliamentary standards commissioner said that meeting financial backers in the Commons was not wrong, but that it was wrong for any MP to "employ their parliamentary office as part of a party fund-raising stratagem".

This will be a big embarassment to Cameron - and brings Betsygate to mind.

There is still time to vote on last weeks set of Tory embarassments. Cameron´s failure to notice the tax rise in the budget is still in first place.