MP Fiona Mactaggart's £14K For Comic Relief

An MP owes more than £14,000 to Comic Relief after promising to donate £1 for every retweet of an appeal.

Labour's Fiona Mactaggart posted on Twitter soon after 8pm on Friday that she would put up the cash for every person who backed her pledge on the social networking site by 9pm.

Within around 35 minutes her message had been repeated more than 14,000 times - and the Slough MP called a halt with the total at £14,268.

She tweeted: "Ok stop now I owe comic relief £14,268. Phew! Cheque soon if you don't believe me check with comic relief."

As the tally grew she was asked, "can you afford this?"

The MP's Twitter appeal prompted a huge reponse within minutes

She responded: "I think but I am twitter naive thank you all for being so generous for me."

She batted away comments from critics that she might claim the money back on expenses or was engaging in self promotion by saying she was "glad to remind Twitter folk to give".

The 59-year-old worked as a primary school teacher and university lecturer before entering parliament in 1997 and serving as a Home Office minister in Tony Blair's government.

Ms Mactaggart is the daughter of Sir Ian Auld Mactaggart, the late baronet who was a Glasgow property developer and Tory grandee. He left his daughter a fifth of his £6.5m estate.

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