Published: October 10th 2008 - at 11:08 pmHague travels Barclays style
Who says those Tories don’t feel your pain…
William Hague is facing awkward questions about his judgment after he joined a lavish Italian trip for Barclays executives on a black day for global markets.
He spent Friday on the sunny shores of Lake Como, on the final day of a luxury break organised by the hard-pressed bank’s private wealth division.
While he enjoyed the balmy surroundings of one of Europe’s most expensive hotels, where rooms can cost £1,000 a night, markets in London and America went into freefall.
And yeah, that was a Daily Fail link.
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And ZaNuLab politicians have never accepted junket, I suppose? Hello – calling John Prescott … or the gurning jackanapes Blair and his postbox-mouthed missus …. Trying growing up.
No one claimed that.
This is not a New Labour (or ZaNuLab) blog.
Are you defending Mr. Hague’s junket? Do you not think such extravagance is, maybe, a little poorly timed?
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