Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 26 March 2012.
My hon. Friend is completely right. There was a concern that if the Conservative party was to get over its deep-seated opposition to increasing the amount of state funding for political parties, the other side of the coin had to be that the Labour party would give up its addiction to trade union funding. Sadly, the latter part did not come through.