When Labour?s new super-donor was ticked off for selling faulty Lucky Panda

By Jim Pickard and Elizabeth Rigby

John Mills, the Labour donor whose ?tax-efficient? gift threatened to overshadow the party?s relaunch, has had brushes with the authorities in the past for trading offences.

The offences involved the sale of brass trinkets as gold-plated jewellery and a ?Lucky Panda? toy whose eyes and ears fell off.

Mr Mills was sacked in 1986 as deputy chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation for failing to disclose these misdemeanours.

The tycoon, who made his fortune through JML, the shopping company channel, is the brother of David Mills, the husband of Tessa Jowell, the former Labour cabinet minister.

On Thursday, it emerged that he had given a �1.65m donation to Labour in shares because

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Source: http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2013/06/when-labours-new-super-donor-was-ticked-off-for-selling-faulty-lucky-panda/

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