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Bullingdon Boys - Our "Betters"

The Bullingdon Club of 1992: pictured are (1) George Osborne, (2) Harry Mount, (3) Chris Coleridge, (4) Lupus von Maltzahn, (5) Mark Petre (6) Peter Holmes a Court, (7) Nat Rothschild, (8) Jason Gissing

Principal characters

Lord Rothschild and son, David Cameron, John Osborne, Baron Mandelson, Gordon Brown, Russian oligarchs, Mafia and gangsters inc.

Thursday 13 November 2008

I'm Mandy, buy me - and Jack'll be ?3,000


'Capacity for self-delusion': Jack Straw (left) is the latest politician to be embroiled in a back-hander scandal - Lord Mandelson (left) still insists he did nothing improper accepting Oleg Deripaska's hospitality

Mail Online
Last updated at 10:26 PM on 10th November 2008

Jack Straw is the latest leading Labour light to become embroiled in a backhander scandal. He is facing an official investigation into a ?3,000 donation from an international energy firm.
The bung, courtesy of a Texan outfit called Canatxx (which sounds like some kind of ointment for embarrassing skin disorders), was not declared in either the Commons' register of MPs' interests or the Electoral Commission's list of donations to parties.
It went towards paying for a dinner to celebrate Straw's 25 years as an MP. My invitation must have got lost in the post.

Is Osborne no longer Cameron's right-hand man?

By Jane Merrick

Ask Miss Whiplash which hand Osborne uses.