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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

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

Sunday 8 February 2009

PETER OBORNE: Rich men, dodgy money and the banana skin that could stop Cameron reaching No. 10


Last updated at 11:54 PM on 06th February 2009

Dances and balls are normally very showy affairs and the guests are expected to dress up and enjoy being on public display.
But not so at the Conservative Black and White Ball in Central London this week. Instead, the Tories treated the occasion like some secret meeting. Police and security guards patrolled outside to stop intruders.
Photographers were banned, and David Cameron himself arrived in a dark suit rather than the traditional dinner jacket and bow tie.
The reason for this furtiveness was simple - the ball was held to raise funds for the Tory Party. Of course, the issue of party donations is potentially explosive after the scandal of Tony Blair's cash-for-honours and the embarrassment over Shadow Chancellor George Osborne being accused of attempting to procure money from a Russian billionaire

Expenses row: 'Lodger' deal earns Jacqui Smith £100,000 as she claims sister's house is main home


By Simon Walters and Martin Delgado, Daily Mail
Last updated at 5:27 PM on 08th February 2009

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has claimed more than £116,000 in Commons expenses for a 'second home' while effectively lodging with her sister.
Ms Smith claims the maximum parliamentary second-home allowance, currently a tax-free £24,006 a year, on the detached house in her West Midlands constituency, where her husband and two young children live and which she bought for £300,000 five years ago.
She is able to do so because she has told the Commons authorities that her 'main home' is a house in London owned solely by her sister, Sara, where she stays on some weekdays