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Hi, Anthony.
Re recording because it wasn't clear and there's music in the background,
but yeah, could you give me a call and I'll explain it to you?
A couple of weeks before Christmas,
a man called Richard Evans contacted a potential client
about sponsoring a networking event in Parliament.
The event he was talking about was to be held in a function room overlooking the Thames
and hosted by his father,
Lord David Evans of Watford.
A multi millionaire donor to the Labour Party.
He was elevated to the Lords by Tony Blair in the 1990s.
He was trying to get the client to sponsor the event for £25,000.