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Priti Patel - a former lobbyists for British Tobacco and the murderous government of Bahrain - was forced to resign in 2017 because she’d effectively continued to act as a lobbyists while in office. If she becomes Home Secretary, expect more of the same: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Boris Johnson’s campaign was run by a corporate lobbying firm which, until recently, was running a secretive global effort on behalf of Glencore to undermine environmental campaigners and renewable energy, & which brags about its ability to shape Brexit: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
New foreign secretary Dominic Raab owes his career to the Institute for Economic Affairs, a dark money funded “think tank” come lobby group which takes money from big tobacco and big oil, & has been paid by the US right to promote NHS privatisation: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
This is the take-over of the lobbyists, big business and oligarchs taking control of the state to secure a disaster capitalist Brexit: opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
At @openDemocracy, we’re going to have to work harder than ever to investigate this new government of all the lobbyists. But we don’t get corporate cash and we don’t have oligarch owners. So please, contribute what you can. So we can. Thank you. support.opendemocracy.net/campaign/wcf?s…
