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No 10 denies Blair honours note | No 10 denies Blair honours note |
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Downing Street has denied reports a handwritten note by Tony Blair is among evidence uncovered by police probing "cash-for-honours" allegations. | Downing Street has denied reports a handwritten note by Tony Blair is among evidence uncovered by police probing "cash-for-honours" allegations. |
The Sunday Telegraph said the note was understood to acknowledge efforts of 12 Labour backers who secretly loaned the party £14m. | The Sunday Telegraph said the note was understood to acknowledge efforts of 12 Labour backers who secretly loaned the party £14m. |
Mr Blair had made his comments in ink on internal government papers and initialled them, the paper said. | Mr Blair had made his comments in ink on internal government papers and initialled them, the paper said. |
No 10 said: "This is completely wrong. There isn't any such document." | No 10 said: "This is completely wrong. There isn't any such document." |
Mr Blair's comments were among a batch of Downing Street papers obtained by detectives, the newspaper claims, adding it is the first time the investigation's "paper trail" has led back to the prime minister. | Mr Blair's comments were among a batch of Downing Street papers obtained by detectives, the newspaper claims, adding it is the first time the investigation's "paper trail" has led back to the prime minister. |
It says detectives believe Mr Blair had intended to give working peerages to most of the 12 lenders, rather than the four previously thought, but was advised against this. | It says detectives believe Mr Blair had intended to give working peerages to most of the 12 lenders, rather than the four previously thought, but was advised against this. |
On Friday, Downing Street denied allegations it had a hidden e-mail system from which messages were deleted after the cash-for-honours inquiry began. | On Friday, Downing Street denied allegations it had a hidden e-mail system from which messages were deleted after the cash-for-honours inquiry began. |
ITV News said police had been alerted to a second network in Downing Street. | ITV News said police had been alerted to a second network in Downing Street. |
But a Number 10 spokesman said there was no second system containing details of party donors. | But a Number 10 spokesman said there was no second system containing details of party donors. |
Police are investigating whether money was donated to political parties in exchange for peerages - all those involved deny any wrongdoing. | Police are investigating whether money was donated to political parties in exchange for peerages - all those involved deny any wrongdoing. |
In an interview earlier with BBC One's Politics Show, Mr Blair repeatedly declined to answer questions on the police investigation. | |
"Let the thing run its course and then we will see," he told interviewer John Sopel. |
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