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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: UK’s most secretive think tanks took £14.3m from mystery donorsopenDemocracy has relaunched the Who Funds You? campaign into think tanks and transparency. Here’s what we found
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Published in: Home: NewsTory MP facing suspension after openDemocracy reveals lobbying scandalAndrew Bridgen failed to declare his interests when lobbying on behalf of UK timber company Mere Plantations
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Published in: Home: NewsNordic loggers lobbied EU commissioner against forestry protectionRevealed: How the multi-billion-euro Nordic logging sector tried to take an axe to EU-wide climate action
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: BA owner pressured government to hide emissions dataBritish Airways doesn’t want the public to know it has the highest emissions per passenger on transatlantic routes
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Published in: Home: NewsEnvironment secretary had secret meeting with anti-climate lobbyistsRanil Jayawardena gave a speech to US think tanks that have lobbied against climate action while trade minister
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: E.ON tried to get Kwarteng to cut its taxes while bills soaredThe UK’s biggest energy supplier also felt threat from Don’t Pay UK was ‘existential’, exclusive documents reveal
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Published in: Home: NewsThink tank behind Truss’s budget shouldn’t be a charity, says ex-watchdog officialCharity Commission accused of failing to control Institute of Economic Affairs, which inspired doomed tax cuts
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsExclusive: Senior Liz Truss adviser worked at lobbying firm for energy supplierIain Carter was a partner at Hanbury Strategy, which was paid to lobby the government on behalf of Bulb Energy
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: US climate deniers pump millions into Tory-linked think tanksOur investigation reveals secretive funding sources for think tanks that boast of influencing the government
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Published in: Home: Analysis5 ways MPs’ new rulebook could let dodgy politicians off the hookThe Standards Committee says its proposals are ‘robust’. Here are some reasons that they aren't
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Influential UK net-zero sceptics funded by US oil ‘dark money’Net Zero Watch says it won’t take cash from fossil fuel investors – but we discovered a funder with millions in oil
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Published in: Home: NewsStarmer’s car industry funding revealed as he backs action on oil protestsThe Labour leader has called for injunctions against green protesters. Now it has emerged two of his biggest donors...
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Published in: ourEconomy: NewsArms firms spent €6m lobbying Germany ahead of defence budget hikeThe news raises questions over industry’s access to power, with influential politicians known to work with...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Lobbying boss who worked for oligarchs has access to ParliamentDavid Burnside, who runs New Century Media, was given the pass after stepping down as an MP in 2005, but denies...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsFresh Tory lobbying row over unregulated ‘Westminster Russia Forum’Exclusive: The group, once called Conservative Friends of Russia, is set to hold a ‘multilateral relations...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP’s Wiki page scrubbed of Azerbaijan lobbying – by user in ParliamentBob Blackman’s biography was whitewashed of references to an openDemocracy investigation, but the edit was spotted by a bot
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMPs who lobbied for controversial ‘green’ petrol were funded by fuel industryGovernment introduced 'E10' petrol after parliamentary group produced glowing report – despite warnings about its...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionNew lobbying ban wouldn’t have stopped Owen Paterson from taking second jobYet again, Parliament’s standards watchdog has botched the rules for MPs – proving that they shouldn’t be allowed to...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationTories rake in £11m from hedge funds and finance tycoonsExclusive: Financiers accused of buying ‘unparalleled access to the very heart of government’ as scale of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDon’t let Johnson muddy the water – the lobbying scandal is about contracts, not unionsIt is bizarre that we are talking about further regulation of unions and charities in response to a scandal about...
