Labour unveils detailed plan to “clean up politics”
Labour has announced that it will introduce sweeping changes to lobbying and donations, while banning MPs from having…
Party Funding
If receiving funding from workers means trade unions are Labour’s paymasters, so be it
Harry Cole, The Sun’s Westminster Correspondent, is just the latest voice in a line-up of right-wing journalists who seem…
Elections to the Lords and taking big money out of politics: Corbyn and Smith on democratic reform
The independent Electoral Reform Society quizzed both Labour leadership candidate on a series of key democratic reform issues. You can read…
Tories retreat on timing of trade union reforms – but the battle goes on
Tory ministers have backed down on part of the Trade Union Bill, after accepting a Lords amendment on…
Donations update reveals full scale of Tory attack on Labour funding
Almost all of Labour’s funding streams are under threat from Tory legislation, new party donation figures show, in moves…
Labour slam Tories’ “sham” consultation over cuts to party funding
Shadow minister Chris Bryant has panned the Tories’ new consultation on funding for opposition parties as “utterly misleading”. Announced…
Labour now expect to take £8 million funding hit from Trade Union Bill
New internal Labour analysis predicts that the party now stands to lose as much as £8 million in…
Trade Union Bill will hit Labour funding to tune of £6 million
Labour expect to see a £6 million drop in funding due the effects the Tories’ Trade Union Bill,…
The Tories are carrying out a devastating attack on Labour’s funding
Amid the torrent of fudged statistics and poorly-disguised u-turns in the recent Autumn Statement, the Chancellor snuck in a…
We must clean up political funding
Another day, another political fundraising scandal. Today it is the Lib Dems whose candidate for Brent Central (and…
