Prominent think tanks on both sides of the independence debate in Scotland, including one set up by Gordon Brown, are keeping their operations secret and using dark money to fund activities, an audit by openDemocracy has uncovered.
Our Scottish Future, a pro-union group founded by the former prime minister in 2019, publishes no information on its donors. Its published accounts show it has assets of just under £350,000 but provide no details of how that money was received.
Another pro-union think tank set up in 2017, These Islands, offers no information on its website of who supports it financially, what income it has or what purpose money was provided for.
