Details of the Minister for Women and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman MP's visit to Reading to speak to local party members at a fund-raising dinner have been leaked to muckspReading. Ms. Harman was joined at the dinner by local MP Martin Salter and Reading East parliamentary candidate Anneliese Dodds.

The Minister apparently had a cold, but it could be that our informant misheard her when she said she was all bunged up. During an after dinner speech, Harriet begged the assembled meeting of Labour supporters: "Give me your money. Just drop off your brown envelopes with our organisers and we'll arrange for them to be paid into party coffers. No questions asked."

Martin Salter MP said: "It was a pleasure to welcome her back in her new role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Minister for Women. Harriet has always been a strong campaigner for donations and if there are any property developers out there with a few hundred thousand pounds to spare, give her a ring."