Secret Tory Lender Is Australian

AN AUSTRALIAN hedge fund millionaire has been revealed as the largest secret benefactor of the British Conservative Party, as the loans affair that has damaged the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, threatens to embarrass the Conservatives as well. Mr Hintze, 51, a former Australian Army captain who has degrees in electrical engineering, maths and physics from Sydney University, outed himself on a Tory activist website, saying he was "immensely proud" of his support for the party.