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Blair drops donors in pared-down list of working peers

Written by Rosemary Bennett and Andrew Pierce and published in The Times on Tue 11th Apr 2006

TONY BLAIR has published a pared-down list of working peers that contains none of the multimillionaires who made secret loans to Labour. Instead of 28 new peers there will now be only 23.

Mr Blair's decision to give up the fight for Labour's backers is a victory for the House of Lords Appointments Commission, whose decision to challenge the nominations led to a six-month stand-off.

The Prime Minister decided against replacing the four businessmen who lent the party millions of pounds before the last election and were recommended for peerages.

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