Usual stench of Labour hypocrisy from the Mirror. It's all been done before :-
A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman made a £50,000 donation to the Labour Party shortly after his company had been awarded a £17 million contract to supply the NHS with vaccines.
The row over the party's links with big business intensified yesterday when it was disclosed that Paul Drayson gave the money after his company benefited from a deal to provide tuberculosis inoculations at a price four times that of the previous contract.
Dr Drayson, chief executive of Powderject, gave the money shortly after Tony Blair led Labour to victory in the general election last June.
The donation was made only two months after Powderject landed a £17 million deal to provide the nation's BCG anti-tuberculosis injections. The personal gift came from Dr Drayson's family fortune, which is estimated to be more than £100 million.
Powderject was given the £8.5 million-a-year contract after the BCG immunisation programme was halted in 1999, because the then supplier, Medeva, experienced production problems and was unable to meet demand.
But the deal reached between the Department of Health and Powderject was four times the original £2 million a year given to Medeva.
A spokesman for Powderject said yesterday: "Paul did make a donation to the Labour Party. Paul is a party member and he was acting in a personal capacity.
"He is quoted in the party's manifesto and his support is very open and clear. The contract was awarded several months before the donation and it was awarded in open and fair competition."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-with-NHS.html
Drayson's snout was well in the Labour trough was made a peer in 2004 and a Minister in 2005
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