Where do the Tories stand on party funding?
Before the 2001 regulations on party funding were introduced, the Conservatives had a history of keeping quiet about their party donors. But a new spirit of openness was announced under the leadership of David Cameron, who has pledged to list all donors giving loans to the party in the future. Is party funding a modern controversy? No. In 1920, Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George was accused of selling political honours for between £10,000 and £40,000. Former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson also gave out numerous honours after he resigned as prime minister, in a scandal that came to be known as the Lavender List.
