Kids Company boss
Camila Batmanghelidjh boasted in front of David Cameron of blackmailing politicians into giving her charity more cash. The
Prime Minister is accused of overriding ministerial advice and handing
millions in public funds to the failed charity after receiving ‘Dear
David’ letters.
An
ex-minister claimed Mr Cameron had overruled him when he objected to
giving the charity more cash, and had ordered officials to continue
paying it taxpayers’ money.
The
revelation – which puts the PM at the heart of the Kids Company scandal
for the first time – came on the day leaked emails from the charity
revealed Miss Batmanghelidjh bragging about her ‘ghetto strategies’ for
extracting public money.
In
a message to staff, sent in early 2013 and revealed by ITV News, she
said the Government had confirmed a £4.5million grant, following
‘blackmailing’ of politicians.
‘There
was definitely loving blackmail, arm-twisting and all manner of
ghetto-strategies before we got to this point,’ she wrote. ‘But you know
that we love politicians, we have compassion for them, and we are
always waiting to rehabilitate them. Read between the lines!’
Former
children’s minister Tim Loughton told Radio 4’s Today that he had
‘cautioned’ against giving the charity a ‘very sizeable’ emergency grant
in 2012 – thought to be the £4.5million it received in March 2013.
He
said there were ‘serious question marks about the way Kids Company was
run, about its financial sustainability, and as to whether it was
actually doing the job for
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