Last week, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy reiterated Labour’s commitment to fighting the UK’s dirty money problem by vowing to create a transatlantic anti-corruption council alongside the US, EU and other allies to coordinate the fight against corruption if his party wins the next election.
“Transnational crime is an area that provides the perfect example of where domestic and foreign policy meet,” Lammy said. “Dirty money from Russia and other authoritarian states has been a stain on London for too long.”
But does Labour’s policy on tackling kleptocracy add up?
