Waheed Alli

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Waheed Alli, Baron Alli

Lord Waheed Alli is the multi-millionaire founder and former Managing Director of Planet 24 Television, the makers of the Big Breakfast and The Word. [1] He and his partner, Charlie Parsons, made £5 million each when Planet 24 was sold to Carlton in March 1999. He is now Managing Director of Production at Carlton, considered an important New Labour asset by the Chairman, Michael Green (a friend of Margaret Thatcher). He has made Labour Party election broadcasts for free and Planet 24 gave the Labour Party £12,500 in 1998. Alli, the former Head of Investment Research at Save & Prosper, was given his peerage in the same year. [2]

Affiliations

Donations

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
08/11/2004 Lord Waheed Alli £9,200.00 Labour Party Scottish Labour Party
31/03/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £600.00 Labour Party Central Party
28/01/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £5,000.00 Labour Party Islington South and Finsbury CLP
01/04/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £15,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
01/04/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £1,400.00 Labour Party Central Party
01/09/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £10,000.00 The Rt Hon David Lammy MP
18/08/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £1,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
06/07/2005 Lord Waheed Alli £775.00 Labour Party Central Party
11/06/2007 Lord Waheed Alli £10,000.00 The Rt Hon David Lammy MP
02/09/2008 Lord Waheed Alli £1,320.00 Labour Party Central Party
10/11/2008 Lord Waheed Alli £10,000.00 Labour Party Mitcham and Morden CLP
09/11/2009 BM Creative Limited, C/O WAHEED ALLI £10,000.00 Labour Party Islington South and Finsbury CLP
22/03/2010 BM Creative management Ltd, c/o Waheed Alli £5,000.00 The Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP
24/09/2010 Waheed Alli £10,000.00 The Rt Hon David Miliband MP Central Party
14/01/2013 Lord Waheed Alli £15,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
03/05/2013 Lord Waheed Alli £1,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
21/08/2013 Lord Waheed Alli £911.00 Labour Party Central Party
31/12/2013 Lord Waheed Alli £15,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
10/10/2014 Lord Waheed Alli £21,000.00 Labour Party Central Party
11/12/2014 Lord Waheed Alli £5,000.00 Labour Party Cities of Brighton and Hove

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Labour leadership contest

In May 2015, Alli donated £2,000 to support Liz Kendall's campaign to succeed Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party.[4]

References

  1. BBC, Profile: Lord Waheed Alli
  2. Available through: Red Star Research search function
  3. Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 9 March 2015
  4. Parliament.uk Liz Kendall, accessed 21 July 2015.