British democracy is for sale - can you help expose it?
From honours for Tory donors to lobbyists evading new transparency rules, the system is rotten. Sunlight is the only disinfectant
When you write a newsletter called ‘Democracy for Sale’ you probably shouldn’t be surprised when you see political honours sold for cold hard cash.
And yet even I was pretty shocked when the news dropped, late on an Easter Thursday afternoon, that Rishi Sunak has knighted Mohamed Mansour for services to, eh, giving £5million to the Conservative party.
The…
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