Writing on Lib Dem Voice, Paul Tyler says today (Wednesday), “The Government has signalled changes in a significant area: cleaning up political funding. This is very welcome news. What appears to be on offer is not a full, comprehensive reform package, but it is a start. The move to deal with links between parties and non-party campaigners is a prerequisite for any more wide-ranging reform (a proper donation cap, for example) since without it money would simply move from parties to other political organisations.”
Read the full article here: http://www.libdemvoice.org/paul-tyler-writesthere-can-be-no-party-funding-consensus-without-compromise-34791.html
Read the Funding Democracy: Breaking the Deadlock draft Bill recently published at a cross-party seminar at: http://www.fundingukdemocracy.org