General Elections: Party-political Spending Debate
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Lord Cormack
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General Elections: Party-political Spending
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Baroness Penn (Con)
I completely reject the premise of the noble Lord’s question. We have transparency in our system so that people can see who donates to political parties. The alternative to donations to political parties is government funding of political parties and campaigning. That is not something that we on these Benches wish to see.
Lord Cormack (Con)
My Lords, in view of the influence that the press very often has on elections, will my noble friend the Minister read the admirable article by my noble friend Lord Hague in yesterday’s Times, which indicated that it would not be a service to democracy for one of our notable daily papers and one of our notable weekly magazines to be bought by foreigners?
Baroness Penn (Con)
I always enjoy reading articles by my noble friend and I will undertake to read that one.