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A £410 million gap, in fact
Ministers ‘naive’ before Metronet failure

By politics.co.uk staff Ministers’ promises to meet 95% of Tube upgrade firm Metronet’s financial liability helped drive the company towards failure, MPs have suggested. The Commons’ public accounts committee said the Department for Transport (DfT) was “naive” in assuming that Metronet – tasked with two of the three 30-year public-private partnership contracts begun in 2003… Read more »

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Peter Mandelson wanted Ashcroft probe
Parties at war over non-dom donors

By Alex Stevenson The row over ‘non-dom’ donors escalated further in a day of bitter infighting across Westminster on Tuesday. The Conservatives put in a freedom of information request against a Labour donor after Peter Mandelson’s attempts to shine further light on the tax status of Tory donor Michael Ashcroft were thwarted earlier. The Liberal… Read more »