The Independent continues its revelations about potential problems with Tony Blair's alleged nomination of NuLabour Party financial donors for knighthoods and peerages in the forthcoming New Year's Honours list.
Sleaze watchdog stalls Blair's 'crony' peer list
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 28 December 2005Tony Blair has become embroiled in a new "cash for favours" row over his nomination of prominent Labour Party donors for peerages.
The parliamentary sleaze watchdog has blocked the Prime Minister's working list of 28 peers, which includes businessmen who have donated thousands of pounds to his party.
He submitted the list of 11 Labour peers, eight Tory peers, five Liberal Democrat peers and four Northern Ireland peers in November. It was first revealed in The Independent on Sunday.
Now the House of Lords Appointments Commission has put a hold on the peerages, pending further checks. "The appointments commission is holding it up because they are dissatisfied with some of the names on the Prime Minister's list. Some members of the commission are holding out as a matter of principle," one source close to the cross-party commission of peers said.
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