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they should also limit donations of people who have been convicted of crimes and completely deny them from people guilty of financial crimes
Will the labour party keep taking multi million pound donations from hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands or will that still be ok?
Sure but I guarantee they wouldn’t be saying this if they were the ones getting the donations. They are all hypocrits and only act when it benefits them
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Angela Rayner has suggested Reform UK could face action over two mega donations to the party under new laws being pushed through parliament.
The housing secretary was reacting to £72m in donations from two crypto billionaires – Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne – for Nigel Farage’s party given on Friday and Saturday in two lumps of £36m.
With fears that the cash from billionaires could distort British politics, Ms Rayner warned that Reform should not count on keeping all the money as new law Labour is pushing through parliament will be “backdated” to cover all donations from March this year.
She told Sky News: “The important thing, and the reason why we’ve got a bill going through Parliament at the moment, is that we need to have secure elections that are for the people, and that you can’t buy your way into our democracy.
That’s why the Rycroft review was set up, and we’ve already taken action against overseas donations, which will be backdated to when the Rycroft was published.”
She went on: “It will be backdated. As this bill goes through Parliament, we’re really clear on overseas donations and also about those that have recently returned to the UK that are also within the scope of the Rycroft review, which was published on the 25 March, and we’re really clear that when that was published, and we were making sure that no one could go through any loopholes.”
Pressed on the issue, she doubled down: “We’re saying that if you don’t pay taxes in, you don’t live here, you can’t buy your way into our democracy because you’re a billionaire.”