Whether you call it Londongrad or the London Laundromat, there’s no doubt that the UK has a serious problem with dirty money in politics. It undermines the integrity of our elections and therefore our democracy – a problem that is exacerbated by weak rules around donations to political parties. These issues can and must be dealt with if we’re to drive dirty money out of UK politics.
Spotlight has researched and developed a model “know your donor” policy that political parties could straightforwardly implement. And we continue to recommend additional important measures to secure the integrity of the UK’s democratic processes.
Earlier this month, the government accepted and enlarged upon recommendations from Parliament’s Committee on Standards for stronger rules for the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) – the informal groups that...
The government has once again voted down a House of Lords amendment that would have introduced checks on donations to political parties to ensure that they are not disguised payments...
Tonight members of the House of Lords defeated the government by passing an amendment to the National Security Bill that will require political parties to do proper checks on whether...
In March, the House of Lords passed an amendment to the National Security Bill to require UK political parties to identify and manage the risks of donations from foreign powers....
Javad Marandi, an international businessman and major donor to the Conservative Party, can nowbe named as someone found to be “a person of importance” in a court case about the...
Javad Marandi, an international businessman and major donor to the Conservative Party, can now be named as someone found to be “a person of importance” in a court case about...
Donations to political parties are essential to the functioning of our political process under the current system, but after a series of scandals and warnings from independent review bodies and...
Today’s rejection by the House of Commons of a key amendment to the National Security Bill leaves the forthcoming UK general election desperately vulnerable to interference by hostile states, kleptocrats...
