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Rowling bails out Labour
J K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels and a close friend of the Prime Minister's wife, bailed out his cash-strapped party - and his credibility - with a million-pound cheque, reports the Guardian.
Rowling, a once impoverished single mother who made her multi-million pound fortune chronicling the adventures of a boy wizard, said yesterday that her gift was motivated by Brown's record in prioritising child poverty, compared with David Cameron's offer of tax breaks to married couples which she found 'reminiscent of the Conservative government I experienced as a lone parent'.
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