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Article: Referendum Party sues over canvassing claim
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 25, 1997
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Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party yesterday issued a libel
writ following allegations that a former Tory agent was paying
individuals to persuade people to vote for the party.
A report in yesterday's Express said an undercover reporter was
offered pounds 6.50 an hour by Charlotte Blacker, the Referendum
Party agent in Putney, south-west London, to carry out promotion
work allegedly described as "canvassing".
According to the newspaper, Ms Blacker, in whose constituency
Sir James is to stand as a candidate, told an undercover journalist
not to tell anyone that he was being paid for canvassing.
In a secretly taped conversation, she reportedly said: "It's our
word against theirs."
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