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Fresh evidence prompts calls for probe into anti-Labour 'dark money' groups

Exclusive: Electoral Commission urged to investigate potential coordination between ‘near identical’ campaigns that spent heavily on attack ads without declaring any donations

Fresh evidence prompts calls for probe into anti-Labour 'dark money' groups
Campaigner Jennifer Powers with Boris Johnson | @Power_Jen/Twitter
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The UK’s elections watchdog has been urged to investigate whether ‘non-party’ campaign groups collaborated to flood social media with anti-Labour attack ads.

As openDemocracy recently revealed, a series of so-called ‘third-party’ campaign groups spent more than £700,000 attacking Jeremy Corbyn and Labour policies during the 2019 election campaign without declaring any of their donors.

Now new evidence has emerged raising questions about whether campaigners were working together behind the scenes.