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Published in: Dark Money Investigations‘A corruption of Conservatism’: how a cartel of Tory MPs broke British politics
In an extract from his book, Peter Geoghegan shows how the European Research Group became a tightly organised ‘party...
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Published in: Freedom of InformationRevealed: the files that expose ERG as a militant “party within a party”Documents released following openDemocracy transparency victory reveal European Research Group’s “highly partial”...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsTax-funded research by Rees-Mogg’s ERG must be released, tribunal rulesLong-running openDemocracy investigation sees ruling that the public has a right to see research produced by the...
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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...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations‘Second’ bank account: MPs demand probe into Rees-Mogg’s Brexit groupCross-party demands for an urgent investigation into the financial affairs of the European Research Group follow...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsParliament watchdog probes Rees-Mogg’s hard Brexit lobby group over “other sources of funding”EXCLUSIVE: Emails released by UK parliamentary standards watchdog reveal a ‘second’ bank account held by the...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsOpposition MPs call on PM to investigate former minister over hidden links to Tory ultra-BrexiteersAfter openDemocracy revealed how former Brexit minister Steve Baker continued to work with the secretive European...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsEx-Brexit minister Steve Baker remained in charge of secretive Tory ultra factionUnder the ministerial code, Baker was supposed to cut his ties with the European Research Group when he joined the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK government minister hides leading role with hard Brexit groupExclusive: Steve Baker accused of playing "fast and loose" with ministerial rules after openDemocracy investigation...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsSix of Theresa May’s cabinet are paid up “members” of secret group demanding a total break from the European UnionThe head of the secretive European Research Group won’t reveal which senior ministers are members of the hardline...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMPs demand full investigation of hard-Brexit backing Tory "party within a party"Labour MPs are demanding that the pro-Brexit European Research Group is investigated by parliament's expenses...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: The Tory MPs using taxpayers’ cash to fund a secretive hard-Brexit groupSenior MPs including Liam Fox, Andrea Leadsom and Jacob Rees-Mogg have used their expenses to fund a 'party within a...
