Double Trouble: Bernie Ecclestone and Tessa Jowell MP
Bernie Ecclestone and Tessa Jowell MP.
Spotted because they both feature in the Telegraph’s digging into Tony Blair’s shenanigans during the million pound donation to the Labour Party by Bernie Ecclestone that “conincidentally” happened at the same time that Formula One, Mr Ecclestone’s sport, was given an exemption from laws banning tobacco sponsorship on the personal instructions of Mr Blair.
The documents - released to The Sunday Telegraph after a two-and-a-half year Freedom of Information battle - reveal that Mr Blair personally intervened to secure Formula One’s exemption from the tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting Bernie Ecclestone, the motorsport’s billionaire boss.
Blair:
A spokesman for Mr Blair said: “There is nothing new here. All these issues were debated at the time.”
That would be why it two and a half years to get the documents under Freedom of Information, then, Mr Blair …?
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