The former paymaster general is planning to give his side of the home loan scandal in his memoirs The Unconventional Minister.

BBC: News | UK Politics | Downing Street denies gagging Robinson

He was tipped for rapid promotion, but lost out on the role of paymaster general when Lord Irvine was allegedly unwilling to let him go.

BBC: Geoff Hoon

The prime minister has insisted former paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson is "not a pariah" and insisted no action was being taken to block his memoirs.

BBC: News | UK Politics | Downing Street denies gagging Robinson

Then, probably the most damaging, was the revelation that Mr Mandelson had been given a preferential loan by millionaire paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson to allow him to buy an upmarket home he couldn't otherwise afford.

BBC: How sleaze entered the political dictionary

John Whiting, tax specialist at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, has been following closely the representations made to the minister responsible, the Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo, which include a joint attack from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Law Society.

BBC: By BBC News Online's Iain Rodger

Geoffrey Robinson, the Treasury's paymaster-general, has now turned to a group of businessmen to advise him how best to proceed.

ECONOMIST: London Underground

Now it seems that the government in the guise of the paymaster-general, Geoffrey Robinson, a former businessman no less is planning to extend this ban and to persuade the biggest fossil-fuel generators to keep buying British coal.

ECONOMIST: Blame it on the boogie