BUT IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO HURT BLAIR...:

Chancellor caught in loans row (Andrew Pierce and Rajeev Syal, 3/24/06, Times of London)

A BUSINESSMAN who secretly lent £1 million to the Labour Party was made chairman of one of Gordon Brown’s flagship projects just weeks after handing over the money, The Times has learnt.

Rod Aldridge, who resigned yesterday as executive chairman of the technology company Capita, will launch the £150 million youth community service scheme with the Chancellor in May.

The timing of his appointment links Mr Brown for the first time with the “loans-for-honours” affair that has engulfed the Prime Minister.