Huhne tells Warsi: Stop AV ‘smears’

Letter to cabinet colleague accuses No camp of ‘scares and smears’ against supporters of electoral reform Cabinet ministers have become embroiled in an extraordinary row over electoral reform amid claims that the campaign against the alternative vote is “poisoning” British politics and hiding the sources of its funding. In a dramatic break from cabinet etiquette, Chris Huhne, the energy secretary, who backs AV, has written to Tory chairman Baroness Warsi demanding that she “comes clean” over funding and stops the “scares and smears” against supporters of change. He also accuses the campaign of being a front for the Tory party. “Are the No camp campaigning in dark glasses because they don’t want to show that the bulk of their funds, in cash and in kind, are donations from the Conservative party?” Huhne asks his fellow cabinet member. “How many Conservative employees have been seconded to the No campaign? Will you declare the full value of their services properly as donations?” The No campaign has not revealed its donors, which it is allowed to do until six months after the 5

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