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Former Brexit minister under fire for meeting Spanish far right
Westminster's former Brexit minister, Chris Heaton-Harris, has been accused of breaching the ministerial code for meeting privately with the far-right Spanish party, Vox.
Westminster ordered to name MPs in hard Brexit lobby group
The Information Commissioner has ruled that the UK government must name the MPs that belong to the European Research Group, which favours a hard Brexit and is led by Jacob-Rees Mogg MP.
Electoral Commission probes £319,000 Tory ‘dark money’ trust
A secretive trust that gave £319,000 to the Scottish Conservatives is under examination by the Electoral Commission.
Government spends just £13,000 on corporate transparency ‘crack-down’
UK Government plans to “crack down” on the potential for Scottish Limited Partnerships to be used to facilitate organised crime have been revealed to consist of a £13,000 "programme of letter writing.”
UK minister under fire for failure to declare links to pro-Brexit think tank
The Eurosceptic Conservative MP Steve Baker has been a director and a trustee of the right-wing Cobden Centre since founding it in 2010 but chose not to declare this in the MPs' register of interests.
Edinburgh University criticised for investment in sanctioned Russian bank
Edinburgh University has been criticised for holding shares in a Russian bank under sanctions from both the United States and the European Union.
Call for investigation after arms firms links to Whitehall exposed
At least 50 arms company employees had passes for Ministry of Defence premises this year, allowing them privileged access to Whitehall.
Brexit campaigners spending was “unusual”, emails show
Electoral Commission emails say spending by Leave campaigners in Brexit referendum was ‘unusual,’ but no formal investigation launched.