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Charles Clarke attacks decision to halt police merger as weak
Police merger delays ‘weak and damaging’

Charles Clarke has condemned as “weak and damaging” the decision to abandon plans for what would have been the first of the government’s police mergers. The former home secretary said the decision to halt the voluntary merger between Lancashire and Cumbria forces could jeopordise the whole police reform programme. He warned it could “seriously hamper”… Read more »

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BBC names Lord Levy as the man who told Labour backer not to declare a loan
Levy named in Lords nomination row

Lord Levy has been named as the person who told a wealthy businessman that his £250,000 loan to the Labour party need not be declared when applying for a peerage. The party’s chief fundraiser and close friend of Tony Blair told Gulam Noon that he need not mention the loan in his application papers to… Read more »