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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMPs urge action over ‘woeful lack of transparency’ in universities
Politicians call for an end to secret donations, following an investigation by openDemocracy
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationLabour in ‘cash for access’ scandal over meetings with £150k donor
Labour top brass including Keir Starmer gave Bloomberg ‘exclusive’ look at party's financial plan at private meeting
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsAcademics call for transparency over university funding
Open letter follows openDemocracy investigation exposing the scale of dark money in higher education
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationLocal councils call bailiffs over debts of just £3
The cost of living crisis has meant record profits for bailiff firms, with bosses taking pay rises up to 367%
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: AnalysisJet-setters, partygoers and double-jobbers: Who’s given what to MPs in 2024
A closer look at the hospitality, gifts and donations received by Labour and Conservatives so far this year
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: AnalysisWhere Labour and the Tories got their money from in 2023
Labour’s cash from private donors now dwarfs donations from unions, while the Tories got their biggest bung ever
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsConservative Party took £1.3m from donor group linked to Israeli settlements
Amnesty International says Rishi Sunak must review donations from JCB and its directors after our findings
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationLabour puts lobbyists on the ballot – and big business is the winner
Prospective MPs with lobbying day jobs are introducing their clients to senior Labour figures – and boasting about it
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsLabour bars press from secretive lobbying event at Scottish party conference
Exclusive: Party has refused to provide a list of sponsors and attendees at Glasgow forum for ‘high-level’ discussions
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect
Labour accuses Mark Pritchard of bringing Parliament into disrepute over job with North Macedonian company
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Environment Agency invested £15m in ‘forever chemical’ firms
Taxpayers’ money pumped into companies that produce PFAS, despite health and environmental warnings
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationUK universities take millions from defence companies arming Israel
Major arms companies give UK universities almost £100m and sit on Russell Group advisory boards
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: £281m of secret cash poured into UK universities
Russell Group leaders lobbied the government to keep names of foreign donors secret
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Big Oil given direct influence over university courses
Fossil fuel companies pump more than £147m into unis and get private access and input into handling of journalists
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationCrowdfunding site used by Wootton has ties to shadowy think tanks
Exclusive: Democracy 3.0 hosts campaigns by politicians, but lacks transparency about donations
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Elite club took £150,000 from property firm…then donated to Tories
London property firm run by Henning Conle gave regular donations to the Carlton Club, which supports Conservative MPs
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsOligarch’s ‘UK office’ had bank accounts frozen after openDemocracy revelations
Action came shortly after we revealed ex-Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov could still profit from London firm
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsTory MP Bob Stewart faces investigation over register of interests
The probe was launched days after openDemocracy revealed Bob Stewart had failed to declare a directorship
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws
The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationTory MP hid directorship at defence firm while sitting on defence committee
Exclusive: Bob Stewart failed to declare role at a defence firm linked to a controversial Azerbaijani businessman