The Guardian
Readers respond to an article about Labour’s attempt to clean up donations to political parties While I agree with much of Polly Toynbee’s opinion piece ( How will we know Labour is really cleaning up party funding? When Reform and the Tories fight like hell to stop it, 26 March ), I was left a little concerned about the tone, which seemingly presented this as uniquely a Tory/Reform UK matter. Dirty money (or just opaque funding) in British politics is not really such a sectarian issue. The proposals would appear to do nothing to prevent a party from accepting, for example, £4m from a hedge fund in the run-up to an election , and not declaring it until afterwards (Labour/Quadrature). Nor would they prevent a party engaging a thinktank that had itself accepted £200m from a rightwing American tech oligarch , bringing them into government, and installing staff in the heart of the policymaking process (Labour/Tony Blair Institute/Larry Ellison of Oracle). Continue reading...
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