Electoral Funding: Unincorporated Associations Debate
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Deidre Brock
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Electoral Funding: Unincorporated Associations
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Martin Docherty-Hughes
Again, no, I will not. [Interruption.] One moment. It turns out that using UAs and similar convenient legal fictions to funnel dark money into our political system is the favoured modus operandi not only of Richard Cook, but of the Scottish Tory party of which he used to be the vice-chair.
Deidre Brock (Edinburgh North and Leith) (SNP)
My hon. Friend is making a really powerful speech. He speaks of transparency and accountability being important and of a functioning liberal democracy being something that we should all support. Does he share my astonishment, because of course electoral support comes in forms other than hard cash, that the Prime Minister has yet to reply to my letter of 7 January about the visit of AggregateIQ to Downing Street? That follows on from her failure to write to me after Prime Minister’s questions as she said she would on 12 September.
Martin Docherty-Hughes
It does not surprise me, because the leader of the Scottish Conservative party has never even responded to my request in terms of a letter about dark money.