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(回答先: Re:英国では現在ブレアを陥れるクーデターが進行中（裏で糸を引いているのは赤楯の可能性大） 投稿者 戦争屋は嫌いだ 日時 2006 年 3 月 20 日 10:56:12)
ブレア関連の「Telegraph」の記事。
Blair and his inner circle blamed for loans crisis
By George Jones, Jonathan Isaby and Amit Roy
(Filed: 20/03/2006)
Labour's high command have conceded that voters thought it was handing out peerages for cash, as the blame for the crisis over £14 million of secret loans was laid at the door of Tony Blair and his inner circle.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, was unable to give a cast iron guarantee that the party had not "sold" honours and Geoff Hoon, the Leader of the Commons, accepted that the public thought that was exactly what it had done.
Today David Cameron, the Conservative leader, will challenge the Prime Minister and Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, to agree to a cross-party initiative to clean up politics by capping future donations.
The Daily Telegraph understands that he will propose an annual limit of £50,000 on personal and corporate donations and would plan to reduce it to £30,000 on entering government.
The Tories will also call for increased state funding and for general election spending limits to be cut by 25 per cent for all parties from £20 million to £15 million and a 10 per cent cut in MPs to under 600.
Shock waves continued to reverberate around Labour over the disclosure that not only the party's elected treasurer, Jack Dromey, but other senior figures, including Mr Prescott and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, were not told by Mr Blair that he had decided to exploit a loophole in the anti-sleaze rules the party had introduced, raising millions of pounds to fight last year's election.
Opinion polls showed that Mr Blair's standing had sunk to an all-time low following the row. An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph showed that 70 per cent of voters now thought his Government was as "sleazy" as John Major's scandal-hit administration "or sleazier".
A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times showed that 56 per cent thought Mr Blair had given peerages for money; only 14 per cent thought he had not. Mr Blair's personal approval rating has slumped to 36 per cent.
Sir Alistair Graham, the chairman of the committee on standards in public life, told Radio 4's The World This Weekend that the affair exposed "a lack of honesty and transparency".
He said: "This Government clearly is in danger of attracting the sleaze label that was so clearly pinned on the previous government."
Ministers took to the airwaves to insist that the Government had not acted illegally. But they were forced on the defensive by further disclosures about the role of Mr Blair's inner circle in soliciting loans which, unlike donations, did not have to be declared.
Mr Hoon, interviewed by Jonathan Dimbleby on ITV1, said it would have been better if the law introduced by Labour had required loans to be declared. When Mr Dimbleby said it was not surprising that the public saw a link between such loans and peerages, he said: "I accept that is the perception that sadly many people have."
Mr Prescott was asked on BBC TV's Sunday AM to give "a categorical assurance" that honours were not "sold". He said: "We have to look a lot more at this before you come to those conclusions you have come to." Later he said he had not meant to suggest that peerages were for sale.
It emerged last night that the textile tycoon Richard Caring lent the party £2 million about three weeks ago.
Although Labour figures deny any wrong-doing over loans, there was a clear attempt to blame No 10 and force Mr Blair to hand over to Mr Brown this summer.
19 March 2006: Revealed: Blair's secret role in loans scandal
19 March 2006: Seven in 10 think Labour as sleazy as Major Tories
17 March 2006: I used loans loophole, admits Blair
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