Labour breaks law with unsolicited "robocalling"?

Thanks to all the concentration on Brown yesterday, a story that went under the wire so to speak has not really go much coverage. Apparently the Labour Party are being investigated by the Information Commissioner for using illegal "robocall" methods.

In the run up to the election that was never really serious because of his "first instinct" the Labour Party have allegedly been using automated war diallers that play a recorded message and ask you to register how you will vote with your touchtone phone, which is actually illegal for political parties to do. BBC journalist Huw Edwards was called and said,

"'I picked up the phone and I heard a female voice saying "This is a recorded message from the Labour Party'. It then asked me who I would vote for in a general election, press one if you would vote Labour, two for Conservative etc. I held on hoping to get a real person so I could ask then to remove my number from their records and not to phone me again but it just repeated so I put the phone down."

I love the fact that the Labour Party have refused to comment on the story. Guilty as charged?