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  Now, Labour leader attacked for NOT packing Lords with party donors
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ContributorNew Jerusalem 
Last EditedNew Jerusalem  Nov 20, 2010 11:03am
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News DateNov 20, 2010 11:00am
DescriptionThe Labour party got a lot of flak over the "cash for honours" inquiry across 2006 and 2007, which finally ended with nobody facing charges.

How things change.

Saturday's Times front-page splash sees Ed Miliband attacked for "snubbing" party donors - because only one of the ten new Labour peers had been a party donor, Sir Gulam Noon.

The newspaper's report says that Gordon Brown was considering offering working peerages to more party donors - Nigel Doughty, Sir Ronald Cohen and fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn - but that Miliband decided not to make those nominations.

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