By the weekend, the Conservatives had achieved the feat of making their own funding become just as much ‘the issue’ as Labour’s. The papers were full of sharp-looking loans which the Tories, as much as Labour, had received from the capitalist class.
The Prime Minister and his allies had succeeded in making any scandal appear bipartisan.
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