Mark Pack on election cost rules: “important that the rules are robust and...
LDV Co-Editor Mark Pack – who has written here and here about the Channel 4 News reports of MPs allegedly stretching their election exenses – has been interviewed by the channel about the complex...
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Joan Ruddock MP submits wholly notional expenses return
The Londonist reports that Joan Ruddock, the Labour MP for Lewisham Deptford, has taken the unusual step of submitting her election expenses return without attaching any invoices or receipts, instead...
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Dear Deputy Prime Minister, I read your speech from Thursday to the Committee on Standards in Public Life with interest. It is good to see the progress being made in many areas of political reform,...
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Good news for minor parties, unelected politicians and those who dislike...
Slipped in near the end of Nick Clegg’s keynote speech to Liberal Democrat conference was the news that the first democratic elections to the House of Lords are pencilled in for 2015. Party sources...
View ArticleGood news as Electoral Commission decides to preserve local donation records
The Electoral Commission is plugging a gap in the record of political donations following a decision to change its policy on retaining copies of constituency candidate expense returns. Donations made...
View ArticleLiberal Democrats get the best electoral bang for campaign buck
Figures released by the Electoral Commission this week reveal that while the Conservative Party outspent all the other parties put together in General Election 2010, it was the Liberal Democrats who...
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Complaint upheld against SNP MSP caught using public funds to promote SNP...
Just a quick update on a story I brought to you last month about SNP MSP Rob Gibson. He used adverts, funded by the Scottish Parliament, for his surgeries which included some heavy duty promotion of...
View ArticleUndeclared Conservative election expenses unearthed by Channel 4 News
Michael Crick, Channel 4 News’s political correspondent, has spent months investigating the Conservative Party’s election expenses from last year’s general election, focussing on the party’s “battle...
View ArticleDevon & Cornwall police call in another force to investigate Tory election...
The BBC reports: A newly elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is facing calls to “stand aside” while she is investigated by police. Officers are examining Alison Hernandez’s role in submitting...
View ArticleElection expenses: Nine of the Tory MPs being investigated named
Channel 4 News have now named nine of the Tory MPs being investigated by the police in connection with allegations of expenses irregularities: The MPs we understand are being looked at are Amanda...
View ArticleConservative Party releases election expenses after court action
The BBC reports: The Conservative Party has produced documents about its spending during the general election after the Electoral Commission took court action. The watchdog applied to the High Court to...
View ArticleElectoral expenses allegations may have deep and game-changing implications
Embed from Getty Images Last week we heard that 12 English police forces have sent papers to the CPS, in response to concerns about electoral expenses matters in up to 20 seats won by the...
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