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...scandal threatening the reputation of a man once known as Teflon Tony involves alleged impropriety behind closed doors. But the police inquiry launched in March 2006 isn't concerned with besotted interns or sexually promiscuous leaders. Blair and the New Labour Party he created in his dapper, middle-class image are suspected of getting too close and personal with money...
...news of the Prime Minister's questioning is the latest blow to the Labour government. Blair's chief fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy-who was arrested in July over suspicion of selling honors--was arrested again on Jan. 30, this time on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Both Blair and Levy have denied any wrongdoing. A guide to the inquiry that has all the British classes chattering...
...Police began to look into party finances after four businessmen nominated for peerages in 2005 were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The body was concerned that the men had recently handed over large amounts of cash to the ruling Labour Party. A spokesman for one of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed Noon had been encouraged by Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application...
...Allegations of Labour sleaze are harmful to a Prime Minister who came to power in 1997 promising that his government would be "whiter than white." Blair had been expected to step down after local elections in May-he pledged that he would quit within 12 months last September-but pressure is now building for the Prime Minister to speed up his departure. David Cameron, the leader of the opposition Conservative party, has called on Blair to stand down immediately "in the national interest...
...scandal affected Tony Blair? Police interviewed Blair in December, but as a witness, not as a suspect. (More than 90 people have been questioned, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) But the allegations of Labour sleaze are damaging to a Prime Minister who came to power in 1997 promising that his government would be "whiter than white." If one of his close aides is charged with any crime, it could critically damage Blair and hasten his expected departure from office this year...