The dinner and celebrity auction at the new Wembley raised more than £600,000 for Labour, as guests paid £1,000 a head for a seat.
Hughes, a former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, who lost his Southwark and Bermondsey seat to Labour, told guests at a recent birthday party: "I don't believe in an unelected second chamber.
Laughably, Qatar's head of communications, Saif al-Thani, said: "We deeply regret that he [Lobel] was unable to report the real story, which is that the government and the private sector are making significant progress in efforts to improve the lives and the labour conditions of guest workers in Qatar".
Moreover, we deeply regret that he was unable to report the real story, which is that the government and the private sector are making significant progress in efforts to improve the lives and the labour conditions of guest workers in Qatar".
Singer Shakira, in London as UN Goodwill Ambassador to speak to Chancellor Gordon Brown, appeared in the public gallery to watch PMQs as a guest of Labour MP Tom Watson.
In fact, he acknowledges a slight preference, grudgingly, for the Labour party – for whom guests Sara Pascoe and Katherine Ryan don't disguise their sympathy – and the SNP.
Among this year's most surprising guests were Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who notably distanced himself from the party putsch back in HQ, partying the night away at the silent disco at 3.30am just before getting the first train back to London.
If most secure-the-borders-firsters are simply xenophobic at heart, then probably nothing is going to make them more amenable to opening American labour-markets to guest-workers or clearing paths to citizenship.
I was invited to the Labour party conference as a guest of Unison.
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was even guest of honour last year at the British kebab awards.
