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 A row has erupted over the knighthood  
 given to furniture tycoon Graham       
 Kirkham, who is reported to have bailed
 out the Tory Party with a £4m loan.    
                                        
 Labour's deputy leader John Prescott   
 called it "the crudest example yet of  
 honours being given for financial      
 services to the Conservative Party".   
                                        
 He poured scorn on John Major's pledge 
 that awards were for ordinary people.  
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