Jonathan Oliver has been awarded Scoop of the Year for his work in exposing the Labour funding scandal involving David Abrahams et al. This is the final award to be accounced from this year's ConservativeHome Movement Awards.
Then at the Mail on Sunday, another notable story of Oliver's was finding out that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor had sacked his press officer for being gay. He was hired as political editor of the Sunday Times at the end of 2007.
The other shortlisted scoopers were the Evening Standard's Andrew Gilligan for exposing Mayor Livingstone over the financial support given to Lee Jasper's organisations (and various other scoops since this survey), and David Hencke's investigation that revealed that Labour spent £1m on preparations for the election that never was.
* More than 8000 people voted on the 2008 ConservativeHome Movement Awards. The previous award announced was book of the year, which went to Peter Oborne's The Triumph of the Political Class.
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