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Mar 18, 2007
Quickie Link: Anger as Souter gives the SNP £500,000
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By vanrozenheim
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(UK) - The Scottish National Party was condemned by equality and human rights campaigners last night after it emerged that its election campaign would be bankrolled by the controversial businessman Brian Souter. Souter, head of the Stagecoach bus company, and a member of the evangelical Nazarene Church which claims to be able to 'cure' homosexuality, announced he had donated £500,000 to the party. Previously, Souter donated up to £1m to the Keep the Clause campaign, which unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the abolition of Section 28, a law claimed to have legitimised intolerance and prejudice.
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