An "enormously wealthy" office worker anticipating to turn a Liberal Democrat MP has since the celebration roughly �300,000 in only 3 years, it has emerged.
The income has been donated by Chris Nicholson, who is station for the Liberal Democrats in Streatham, south London. Keith Hill, who is stepping down as Labour MP for Streatham at the election, told the Commons that scarcely all of the income had been outlayed on campaigning in the constituency. He added: "Even Lord Ashcroft cannot contest with spending on this gargantuan scale."
Mr Nicholson, a partner at the accountancy hulk KPMG, is battling to overturn a Labour infancy of 7,466 in the constituency.
Mr Hill claimed the scale of spending in his chair by an "enormously rich man who was not long ago in authority of �800,000 bonuses" was "frankly undemocratic". He claimed: "What we are saying here is the attempted squeeze of a parliamentary seat."
Mr Nicholson is one of the greatest donors to the Liberal Democrats, who loiter far at the back of the Tories and Labour in their capability to lift funds.
He gave the celebration �57,300 in 2007, �104,894.64 in 2008 and �125,700 last year, a sum of �287,894.64. The celebration had to lapse a present of �40,000 from him in 2007 that was ruled impermissible since he was not on the electoral register at the time.
The Tory claimant in Streatham, Rahoul Bhansali, has described Liberal Democrat attacks on Conservative appropriation as "extremely hypocritical" in the light of the Liberal Democrats" spending.
Last night Mr Nicholson pronounced Labour was means to pull on Mr Hills Commons communications stipend and the journal constructed by Labour-run Lambeth legislature to get the partys summary across.
"Contrary to what Keith Hill alleges, we are being outspent by Labour in conditions of what they are putting out. A lot of that is entrance from open funds."
He added: "It is a pointer of how unfortunate they are that they are creation these allegations."
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