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Gordon Brown deserted by big election donors

GORDON BROWN is being abandoned by the multi-millionaire businessmen who bankrolled Labour’s last election campaign, endangering the party’s efforts to fight off David Cameron at the next election.

Labour is already haemorrhaging financial support at a time when it should be amassing an election war chest. It is now clear that Brown has failed to retain the wealthy backers so successfully wooed by Tony Blair. Brown’s leadership is a key factor in the decision of other tycoons neither to lend nor give cash to the party.

Source:  Report from The Sunday Times by Marie Woolf and Isabel Oakeshott, June 14, 2009 - Gordon Brown deserted by big election donors