Louise Ellman, the MP for Liverpool Riverside, hosted the "Meet the PM" night at Newz, a bar in the city, last Wednesday. "I told them that I'd only cough up £20 if Brown resigned," says the unimpresssed owner of one local business. Ellman is keen to disassociate herself from the decision to ask guests to pay to attend the two-hour drinks reception. "I don't know anything about charging for tickets," she tells Mandrake. "I don't even know if the drinks were free because my friend brought me one. The event was organised by the North West Labour Party. I told the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce about the event. It is up to them whether they chose to advertise it." A spokesman for the chamber says: "The Labour office got in touch with us as Louise Ellman was hosting an event. We know her as we do about four events a year with her."Crisis-hit businessmen asked for £20 to meet Gordon Brown
Unembarrassed by spending an estimated £200,000 of taxpayers' money on the Cabinet's "away-day" in northern England, the Labour Party asked businessmen hit by the economic crisis to pay £20 each to meet Gordon Brown.
Sunday, 11 January 2009
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