Labour’s John McDonnell has called for a “full inquiry” into a series of online campaigns that spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on anti-Jeremy Corbyn attack adverts ahead of the 2019 election.
Citing openDemocracy’s recent reporting in Parliament on Thursday 4 March, the former shadow chancellor said a “serious and in-depth inquiry into third party campaigning” was needed, after pro-Tory groups spent £700,000 without declaring any individual donations.
McDonnell said the elections watchdog needed to investigate how third-party campaigns “spent large sums on a social media advertising campaign smearing the Right Honourable Gentleman for Islington North without declaring the source of their funds”.
