Political party donors

One cannot defend the indefensible and the most that can be said for the Prime Minister at his trial by news conference yesterday was that he did not even try. Instead, in relation to the proxy donations from property developer David Abrahams, he adopted a near identical strategy to the one he used for the child benefit data debacle last week: he acted swiftly, announced an inquiry, promised changes, then sought to distance himself from the crisis. If he thinks that his government will avoid further flak from this latest scandal, he is mistaken.