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Revealed: the files that expose ERG as a militant “party within a party”. Latest from @openDemocracy on how the European Research Group spoon-fed attack lines to Tory MPs to undermine their own government and ministers opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
This is the biggest release of ERG 'research', and follows @openDemocracy 's successful legal battle with the spending watchdog, IPSA. The ERG is funded by taxpayers but IPSA refused to release this public funded material until a court ruled that it had to
IPSA carried out a limited examination of the ERG’s output and found it “factual and informative”. But trade experts who reviewed the material dismissed the ERG’s output as “superficial and selective" and “highly partisan”.
ERG MPs were encouraged to ask Theresa May, then home secretary, about Turkey and EU’s ability to negotiate a refugee deal with Turkey. A suggested list of questions for Home Office questions included demands for details of the “true scale” of inward migration to be released
In one paper, called ‘Brexit and the Queen’s Speech’, ERG MPs are told that whenever World Trade Organization rules are mentioned, they should refer to an answer compiled by the Legatum Institute, a pro-Brexit think tank.
@StevePeers said the ERG’s research was “highly partial” and “often flawed by basic misunderstandings or omissions”. @DavidHenigUK described the research as "superficial and selective".
All the European Research Group documents given to IPSA and revealed after openDemocracy’s successful court case can be accessed here. theipsa.org.uk/publications/f…
This type of independent journalism takes a lot of time and energy. Please do consider supporting @openDemocracy 's public interest journalism support.opendemocracy.net/project/dark-m…
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