Excellent piece by Peter Riddell @conunitucl.bsky.social - “it is no longer sufficient or credible to believe you are the good guys” - important call for swift and meaningful action by the new government on strengthening UK standards regime to restore trust in politics.
NEW BLOG: Government standards: the need for reform Peter Riddell argues action to create new standards safeguards is needed, and ministers cannot brush aside criticism on the grounds that their intentions are good
Before the election, Labour promised to make broad changes to the standards regime. Yet two months after the election, progress on many aspects of their plans has been slow, and the new government …
With ethics and integrity back in the news, and still so much to do to restore trust in public life, with our colleagues at @ukaccoalition.bsky.social we are highlighting what needs to be done at panels at all the party conferences this year.
Great to see @carolvorderman.bsky.social@spotlightcorruption.org@petergeoghegan.bsky.social and others.
Must read story today from Tom Burgis that pulls together the threads of a 15 year investigation into alleged financial crimes that may finish with the government writing a huge cheque to the oligarchs accused.
" But the public interest in telling this story is clear.The [ENRC case] would go on to reshape the UK’s legal landscape, touching everything from confidentiality to surveillance,defamation to free speech, and the duties that lawyers owe their clients." #ENRC #SFO www.theguardian.com/news/2024/se...
The long read: It began as a routine investigation into a multinational called ENRC. It became a decade-long saga that has rocked the UK’s financial crime agency. Now new documents illuminate a case t...
🔥Hot off the press: the government’s six-year bulletin of the UK’s record on asset recovery is out today. Here’s a short thread on what leapt out at us: www.gov.uk/government/s...
Brilliant investigative digging by the dogged Tom Burgis to trace the collapse of the Serious Fraud Office’s corruption probe into ENRC, a powerful mining company founded by a trio of Kazakh oligarchs and funded by Russian state-owned banks: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/se...
The long read: It began as a routine investigation into a multinational called ENRC. It became a decade-long saga that has rocked the UK’s financial crime agency. Now new documents illuminate a case t...
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Really enjoyed talking about think tank funding on this week's POLITICO Westminster Insider podcast Adam Smith Institute founder Madsen Pirie says think tanks can't delcare their donors because they'll ‘have excrement put through their letterboxes’.... I think that's, eh, 💩 t.co/jRNPhq3BNZ
Really important scrutiny by Peter G on think tank funding
NEW: Onward is one of most influential think tanks in British politics Tory ministers have sat on Onward's board. Labour MPs have hailed its reports. But who funds Onward? I took a dive in my latest Substack.... and found some surprising answers democracyforsale.substack.com/p/guess-who-...
Onward's funders include BP, Shell, weapons manufacturers, a vaping business and Len Blavatnik, a billionaire who made a fortune in post-Soviet Russia