Special report: Cash for honours: Money talks Twelve angry men and one shame-faced Prime Minister The wealthy businessmen who loaned the Labour Party milions are turning the heat up on No 10, none more so than Sir Gulam Noon, as he tells Francis Elliott in his first interview since the scandal broke

The Independent on Sunday | March 26, 2006| | Copyright

Should the Metropolitan police detectives investigating the "cash for peerages" affair call on Sir Gulam Noon's London home this weekend, they will find an angry man. "I am absolutely devastated," he says, "because I have done nothing wrong. I have done exactly what they asked me to do."

Speaking for the first time since his peerage was blocked, the Indian food magnate says he has rejected Downing Street's attempts to apologise. "They are very sad about this - they are concerned, but it should not have happened to me," Sir Gulam told The Independent on Sunday.

"I have been here for the last ...

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