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Concerns raised over ‘dark money’ funding anti-lockdown MPs

Tory MP Steve Baker's Covid Recovery Group has received £10,000 in donations from an unregistered association. Experts say electoral law needs to change

By Peter Geoghegan, Martin Williams and Katie Tarrant
Concerns raised over ‘dark money’ funding anti-lockdown MPs
Steve Baker warned Boris Johnson off COVID restrictions
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A group of anti-lockdown MPs has been criticised for taking thousands of pounds’ worth of donations from a secretive organisation which is not listed on any official company registers.

The Recovery Alliance has been providing media and consultancy services to the COVID Recovery Group (CRG), a group of Conservative MPs that has repeatedly called for lockdown restrictions to be lifted.

The group has proven adept at grabbing news headlines, with the CRG’s Steve Baker this weekend warning Prime Minister Boris Johnson against extending COVID restrictions on 21 June.

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