A spokesman for Ed Miliband tells Guido that Ed has met Farah Sassoon on several occasions “socially”, but that she is in no way an adviser to the Labour leader, despite her claims to the contrary.
Sassoon says she does different things when she meets different people, at different times in the evening. Yet one fact is very clear…
The Labour donor and business woman has been given a pass personally by John Bercow, who now admits she is funding his re-election campaign.
That does not pass the smell test. Pun intended…