Peter Geoghegan is investigations editor of openDemocracy's main site. He can be found on Twitter @PeterKGeoghegan.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations“Not in the public interest”: why the Electoral Commission didn’t investigate Vote Leave and DUP donationThe UK’s election watchdog doesn’t think it’s worth finding out if the Brexit campaign broke the law more than once. MPs have called on the regulator to look again.
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: US anti-LGBT 'hate group' dramatically increases UK spendingBig spending Christian right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to campaigns against assisted dying in the UK.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGovernment ordered to end secrecy over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘hard’ Brexit ERG lobby groupInformation Commissioner rules that Brexit department must release names of European Research Group MPs, following openDemocracy Freedom of Information appeal.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRevealed: How dark money is winning ‘the Brexit influencing game’As Tory MPs resign in protest at the malign influence of hardline Brexiters, documents show the “unfettered” access to ministers and senior politicians enjoyed by secretive think tanks such as the IEA that are “marching the country” to a no-deal Brexit.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRevealed: The dark-money Brexit ads flooding social mediaFacebook has new transparency rules on political ads. But in the last week pro-Brexit groups have spent tens of thousands pushing ‘no deal’ – without having to explain who pays for them.
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Published in: HomeBrexit’s primitive passions could bring havoc to Ireland – and far beyondThe Good Friday Agreement was a marvel that is now threatened by the ignorant and the nasty among Britain’s ruling elite.