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| | Guardian | Portillo failed to declare cash for speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The Tory leadership frontrunner, Michael Portillo, accepted over £20,000 in undeclared political donations in return for giving private briefings and dinner speeches while he was a member of John Major's cabinet, according to documents and other evidence in the hands of the Guardian. |
 | | The money from US and British firms - which was not declared to parliament - was channelled to his then local constituency association in Enfield, north London. |
 | | Last night the former Tory agent for the Enfield constituency, Malcolm Tyndall, accepted when the Guardian put the allegation to him that more than £20,000 was raised in this way. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4218832-103685,00.html (948 words) |
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