EXC: Prince Charles aide received gifts from Saudi billionaire while fixing him an honour
Michael Fawcett met tycoon's team at Clarence House to plot CBE
And he got Oxford master to "spontaneously" back it, signing off their form so it was "tickety boo!" thetimes.co.uk/article/7d271c…
Scotland Yard under pressure as hundreds of emails show how Charles aides got CBE for Mahfouz bin Mahfouz
Fawcett said Saudi was "man of detail" & "passion" in his nomination letter
He sent after becoming "aware" Oxford college was backing Mahfouz. Which he secretly asked it do
It comes as @PeteWishart and @GoodLawProject write to the Metropolitan Police threatening judicial review into failure to investigate Tory "cash for peerages" scandal.
Police says insufficient evidence. They say it's the Met's job to collect evidence.
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote
Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions look uncertain
Am told that Starmer claimed he was trying to find a consensus, but wouldn’t actually address the issues. He was instead "bollocked"
Source says unions "one by one" claimed they hadn't been consulted by leader's office ahead of reforms, with even head of TULO saying they weren't involved in discussions...
Greensill takes aim at Lord Myners, who has been one of the leading critics of the company
Says Myners "seemed amenable" to the idea of becoming an adviser to his company during a meeting they had - and that he had a follow up encounter with the chairman of Greensill Capital 2/
Greensill says that Lord Myners prepared a statement which the company was preparing to publish - but never did.
"My question in parliament was linked to open ended funds and illiquidity. I've asked many other question of the same issue in my time in parliament...