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'Signed Hutton report raised funds' for Government Press Association | May 24 2006 Labour was facing demands for a public apology following reports that an autographed copy of the Hutton report was auctioned to raise funds for the party. It was reported that a copy of the report, which looked into the death of the Government scientist David Kelly, was signed by the Prime Minister's wife Cherie Blair and sold for £400 at a party fundraising event last week at the Arts Club in Mayfair. Tory MP Stewart Jackson has tabled a Commons motion accusing the party of being "arrogant and crassly insensitive" in "hawking" an official report into the death of a public servant as a "novelty item". Mr Jackson said that he would now be writing to party chairman Hazel Blears calling on her to apologise and to donate the money raised to an "appropriate" charity. "I think Labour should admit that it was a very bad mistake," Mr Jackson told the BBC Radio 4 PM programme. "We are talking about an official report into the death of a public servant who was also somebody's father and somebody's husband," he said. "I don't think it is appropriate that it is hawked around like a novelty item by the Labour Party to raise money, however broke they may be. "It is an extraordinary lapse of taste and it is extremely insensitive to Dr Kelly's family. The Labour Party should know better." There was no immediate response from the Labour Party. ---------------------------------------------------
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