The White House on Wednesday called the bans on blood donations from gay and bisexual men “painful” amid the worst blood shortage in a decade in the U.S.
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cost of the refurbishment of the number 11 flat. the prime minister s adviser published a report back in spring into this. what the electoral commission was doing was trying to establish whether that money from lord brownlow was properly declared by the conservative party and whether it broke any electoral donation rules. the commission decided it wasn t properly declared, this was alone amounting in total to £67,000 of which £52,000 was used to cover the cost of the flat refurbishment. the electoral commission said that should have been declared as a loan, it wasn t, which is why they have fined the tory party £17,800. the conservative party in response have described this as a technical breach of the rules and have said that they are thinking about possibly launching an appeal against the electoral commission s conclusions but i don t think that is the end of the story. there is a big report that the commission have produced which we will look through. at what point
it s just a week away from the league cup final. let s return to our top story and the £17,800 fine handed to the conservative party for failing to accurately report a donation that paid for the refurbishment of the prime minister s flat. the electoral commission says the party had not kept a proper accounting record of the money it received. the deputy leader of the labour party, angela rayner, has called for a reinvestigation of what happened. well, the electoral commission has found that the conservative party is guilty of breaking the electoral donation rules. first we had the paterson scandal, then the illicit christmas parties in number ten and now dodgy payments from a multimillionaire conservative party donor to fund the luxury downing street refurb. i think you know, what is most concerning for me is
the prime minister s adviser on ministerial interests, lord geidt, published a report back in the spring into this. what the electoral commission was trying to establish whether that money from lord brownlow was properly declared by the conservative party and whether it broke any electoral donation rules and the electoral commission have decided that it was not properly declared, that this was a loan, amounting in total to £67,000, of which £52,000 was used to cover the cost of the flat refurbishment. the electoral commission says that should have been declared as a loan. it wasn t, which is why they have fined the tory party £17,800. there s more to this, as sam coates from sky news points out. in may the prime minister told lord geidt, who investigated this in the spring, that he did not know who was behind the number 11 flat refurb until february 2021. today the electoral commission says boris johnson whatsapped lord brownlow, who gave the loan, in november 2020, asking for more