THE opportunity to bring the question of party funding out into the open was not taken by the Government when it set up the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life.

MP Nigel Evans says it is an obsolute disgrace that the Labour Party last year was 'bank-rolled by their union paymasters to the tune of £6.5 million.'

It appears that a current means of raising funds for the Tory Party is the setting-up, by big business tycoons, of a club whose members pay large sums of money for the fun of dining with Ministers of the Crown, and the Prime Minister himself.

Nigel Evans also says that the Labour Party is in the pocket of the trades unions; I ask him in whose pocket is the Conservative Party, and where does the potential for corruption lie?

C A BAKEWELL, St James Road, Blackburn.

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