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The Cash-for-Honours scandal (also known as Cash for Peerages, Loans for Lordships, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) was a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life peerages.
The Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that makes the sale of peerages or any other honours illegal. The act was passed by the Parliament in the wake of David Lloyd George's 1922 cash-for-honours scandal.
The married SNP MP who made the initial police complaint over the cash for honours scandal was forced to make an apology after it was revealed that in 2005 he had a "heavy petting" session with two teenage girls aged 17 and 18 [22] in a hotel room at the same time his wife was pregnant with their third child.
A series of newspaper articles alleged a donor to The Prince’s Foundation was offered help securing a knighthood.
British police on Monday said it will take no further action following an investigation into an alleged cash-for-honors scandal linked to one of King Charles III’s charities.
Michael Fawcett, chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation, resigned from his role in the wake of the alleged scandal.
Category: Labour Party (UK) scandals. 2 languages. ... Cash-for-Honours scandal; 2009 cash for influence scandal; 2010 cash for influence scandal; D. Downing Street ...
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