Guess who bankrolls the leading Tory think tank advocating for coal?
Onward has been hailed as the future of the Conservatives. Its funders? BP, Shell, weapons manufacturers, a vaping business… and Len Blavatnik, a billionaire who made a fortune in post-Soviet Russia
Dark money enters the political system without voters seeing it: anonymous donations, hidden influence campaigns, clandestine social media adverts.
But what if a political actor does publish information about its funding but leaves out important details? What if nobody actually reports these money flows, presumably because the information is in the publi…
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