Hurst, Greg (8 November 2005). "Sleaze row as election donors get peerages". The Times. London . Retrieved 28 April 2010. The prime minister's official spokesman said: "Suggestions that we leaked or were trying to leak this information are just plain wrong - and that's not based on my personal hunch. It's because there are inaccuracies in reports which mean it can't have come from No 10." Tempest, Matthew (28 March 2006). "MPs postpone loans inquiry". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Levy's book is not heavily critical of the police investigation, though he is still angry that there was so much leaking to the press. Did he ever think he would go to jail? "No, I didn't really feel that. I just didn't think it could ever go to trial. Were there moments when I felt very lonely, miserable, confused? Yes, there were some very down moments, but I never really felt that."

Naughton, Philippe; Freeman, Simon (21 March 2006). "Criminal probe into 'cash-for peerages' controversy". The Times. London . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Inside Gaza as you have never seen before: Palestinians share footage of people swimming on beach, shopping at markets and playing football in rare glimpse of what life was like before October 7 I wanted to raise his case in the article, but it was thought that it would be better to focus on the substance and facts of the wider issue, because that would be of greater interest.” Lord Levy received an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University in 1999, and the Israel Policy Forum (USA) Special Recognition Award in 2003. In 1994, he was a Recipient of the B'nai B'rith First Lodge Award and in 1998 a Recipient of the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scopus Award. He has received the Jewish Chronicle 175th Anniversary Award for outstanding, unique and long term contributions to British Community life. [ citation needed] Thirty-eight peers indicated they provide public affairs or strategic advice, an area of particular sensitivity because such work can easily stray into lobbying.The Guardian has established that the Labour peer Michael Levy failed to declare three interests linking him to Moshe Kantor, a billionaire Russian fertiliser businessman and philanthropist. Nigel Farage's secret French politician girlfriend Laure Ferrari set to travel to Australia to support him when he leaves the I'm A Celebrity jungle Over the weekend Downing Street was accused of being responsible for the leak, something No 10 denied yesterday. ReesMogg, William (20 March 2006). "This dishonourable affair". The Times. London . Retrieved 28 April 2010. The former Conservative MP Lord Robathan included his work for the Nova Group, which is owned by the Romanian Adamescu family, on his register of interests. The Romanian government is seeking the extradition of Alexander Adamescu on corruption charges, which he denies.

Insisting it was up to the Palestinians to end their internal divisions as a people and lead the way forwards, he added: “This is also in the best interests of the Jewish and Jewish Israeli future.”

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CPS decision: "Cash For Honours" case". Crown Prosecution Service. 20 July 2007 . Retrieved 23 July 2017. [ permanent dead link] Levy met the prime minister at an Israeli diplomatic dinner in 1994 - the year Blair became Labour leader - and was soon his tennis partner. In the crucial opposition years before 1997 - the year of his peerage - it was Levy's job to find the "high value" supporters who would finance the private trust which paid for Blair's private office staff. He said: “This is a worldwide system we are fighting. Zionism has a worldwide system of settler colonialism. It engages in destabilising governments around the world, supporting coups of right-wing paramilitary organisations.” He has been described by The Jerusalem Post as "undoubtedly the notional leader of British Jewry". [4] He was a founding member of the Jewish Leadership Council, the leadership of the UK Jewish community. Levy has close ties with Israeli political leaders. His son, Daniel Levy, was active in Israeli political life, and has served as an assistant to the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and to former Knesset member Yossi Beilin. His son Daniel is now based in the UK and is now President of the US Middle East Project and before that was Head of the Middle East Department of the European Council of Foreign Relations. Levy has praised Blair for his "solid and committed support of the State of Israel" [6] and "his commitment to the peace process". Levy was associated with the Labour Friends of Israel. [7] [ verification needed]