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Electoral Commission contradicts DUP on Brexit donor transparency

Did Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party do the checks the law requires of it before accepting a vast donation for its Brexit campaign?

By Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan
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DUP Treasurer Gregory Campbell MP. Image, BBC, fair use.

The Electoral Commission seems today to have directly contradicted Democratic Unionist Party claims that the party does not need to know the true source of their £425,000 Brexit donation.

As openDemocracy reported yesterday, Democratic Unionist Party MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told us that his party didn’t need to know the true source of the funds which it has said were paid to them by a mysterious organisation calling itself ‘the Constitutional Research Council’, and which were largely used for major pro-Brexit campaigning.

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