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Article: Parliament: Millennium Dome - Downing Street admits it ordered Hindujas contact
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2001
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DOWNING STREET admitted yesterday that it instructed Peter
Mandelson to contact the billionaire Hinduja brothers about a
donation to the Dome.
After a weekend of calls for No 10 to "come clean" over its part
in the Hinduja "cash for passports" scandal, the Prime Minister's
office confirmed that the Hindujas had first spoken to Tony Blair
about sponsoring the Dome in 1998.
Yesterday MPs stepped up demands for the Hammond inquiry to be
reopened following revelations at the weekend that Jonathan Powell,
the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, sent an official minute to Peter
Mandelson to contact the Indian brothers without delay.
Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, whose original ...