100,000 back Christie on bank losses

CAMPAIGNERS last night stepped up pressure on Gordon Brown to compensate Christie’s for the £6.5 million it lost when the Icelandic bank collapsed.

Cancer patients, fund-raisers and Christie charity representatives delivered a 100,000-name petition to Downing Street calling for the Prime Minister to act.

The campaign was launched in March in an attempt to overturn the decision made by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme that the Christie Charity would not be compensated for the £6.5 million it lost in the Icelandic banking collapse.

Lord Keith Bradley, chairman of the Christie charity, said: “This petition is a loud and passionate call for the Government to help to bring this money back to where it rightfully belongs.”

The petition was delivered 24 hours after the Prime Minister was accused of standing in the way of Christie’s getting compensated.

The charity raises around £13 million a year to support Christie’s.

Last month the Commons powerful treasury select committee report recommended that the charity should be compensated.