Galvanised by the prospect of foreign donors – including a certain US-based tech billionaire – potentially contributing to UK political parties, over the last two weeks more than a dozen...
Yesterday the House of Lords saw the first reading of a crucial Private Members’ Bill* which would significantly improve ethics regulation in government. The Public Service (Ethics, Integrity and Independence)...
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has today found against a lawyer for improperly stifling public scrutiny, following a complaint that he engaged in legal tactics broadly referred to as Strategic Lawsuits...
On 9th December, the UK put three new individuals on the UK’s Anti-Corruption Sanctions list. Kamlesh Pattni, his wife Minal Damji and brother in law Mukesh Vaya were all sanctioned...
Today Spotlight on Corruption is releasing a scorecard on how the new government is implementing key recommendations on lobbying transparency. These recommendations were made by the UK’s top ethics body,...
Today we are releasing a lobbying scorecard on where the new government has got to on lobbying transparency. While the previous government committed to implement three major recommendations to enhance...
Last night the government’s latest departmental lobbying transparency data dropped – two months late. So late in fact that the content is primarily of historical interest: the data relates to...
Weak enforcement has long been the Achilles’ heel of the UK’s fight against economic crime, and the early signs suggest that sanctions enforcement is unlikely to be an exception to...