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British Woman Leaves Nearly £420K (USD $651K) To Whichever Government Is In Power
The Tories and Lib Dems have given up an elderly spinster's £520,000 bequest after a row about it being split between the coalition parties.
Former nurse Joan Edwards left the cash in her will to "whichever Government is in office at the date of my death".
After some initial confusion about how to split it, the Tories pocketed £420,576 and the Lib Dems £99,423 based on their number of ministers and MPs.
But there was consternation that it was treated as a party donation instead of part of the Government's finances and could therefore have been spent on campaigning.
http://news.sky.com/story/1128422/joan-edwards-donation-handed-to-treasury
Former nurse Joan Edwards left the cash in her will to "whichever Government is in office at the date of my death".
After some initial confusion about how to split it, the Tories pocketed £420,576 and the Lib Dems £99,423 based on their number of ministers and MPs.
But there was consternation that it was treated as a party donation instead of part of the Government's finances and could therefore have been spent on campaigning.
http://news.sky.com/story/1128422/joan-edwards-donation-handed-to-treasury