Four people, including Lord Levy and Ms Turner, have been arrested and questioned in the cash-for-honours affair.

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Which, as Lord Levy knows, is a lot less fraught than having to ask people for money.

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Lord Levy's comments came in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, timed to coincide with the serialisation of his memoirs.

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Lord Levy said he had been "literally trembling with shock" when he first heard he was going to be arrested in July 2006.

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Mr Wishart asked Mr Blair, during Prime Minister's Questions, about the role of Lord Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser, in alledgedly offering advice on honours lists.

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Mr Dromey later revealed he and other elected party officials had been kept in the dark about loans arranged by Mr Blair's chief fundraiser, Lord Levy.

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Lord Levy repeated his call for a change in the way political parties are funded, saying that he had felt this was necessary even before the cash-for-honours investigation broke.

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Labour has a rather more modest "Thousand Club", but Tony Blair's former fundraiser Lord Levy made clear that he invited the PM to dinners for big donors held "at private homes".

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