London - The Harrods owner, Mr Mohamed Al Fayed, is due to give evidence in the High Court in London later today in what is likely to prove the high point of a protracted libel action taken by the former Conservative MP, Mr Neil Hamilton, Rachel Donnelly writes.
The former MP for Tatton, who claims Mr Al Fayed ruined his career, is suing the Harrods owner over comments he made in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme in 1997. Mr Al Fayed claimed that he made cash payments to Mr Hamilton in brown envelopes and in return the former MP tabled questions on his behalf in the Commons in the 1980s.