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04.09 EDTFarage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donationsGood morning. Ministers already think that the new laws on political donations, as set out in the version of the representation of the people bill which left the Commons earlier this month, will be enough to block some or all of the donations worth £72m to Reform UK announced at the weekend. But they are still planning further amendments to the legislation, when peers debate their own amendments to the bill, to make the restrictions even tighter.
- ▪04.09 EDTFarage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donationsGood morning.
- ▪Ministers already think that the new laws on political donations, as set out in the version of the representation of the people bill which left the Commons earlier this month, will be enough to block some or all of the donations worth £72m
- ▪But they are still planning further amendments to the legislation, when peers debate their own amendments to the bill, to make the restrictions even tighter.
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04.09 EDTFarage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donationsGood morning. Ministers already think that the new laws on political donations, as set out in the version of the representation of the people bill which left the Commons earlier this month, will be enough to block some or all of the donations worth £72m to Reform UK announced at the weekend. But they are still planning further amendments to the legislation, when peers debate their own amendments to the bill, to make the restrictions even tighter.
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