NEW: Keir Starmer's donations
- £100,000 Robert Latham, Camden resident & barrister who practised at Doughty Street Chambers (like KS)
- £5,000 Richard Hermer, human rights barrister
- £2,500 Iain Simpson
- £2,700 Trust Reservations (which does Lab conference)
- £100,000 Robert Latham, Camden resident & barrister who practised at Doughty Street Chambers (like KS)
- £5,000 Richard Hermer, human rights barrister
- £2,500 Iain Simpson
- £2,700 Trust Reservations (which does Lab conference)
Updated here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem…
As @danbloom1 notes, there will be other donations not included in the update today:
@danbloom1 N.B.: Publication via Register of Interests means candidates have 30 days between accepting a donation and having to declare it. Mailshot to all members estimated to be £280,000, and there is a big campaign team. A total of £125,521 has been declared for KS campaign so far.
NEW: Jon Trickett said: “I've been campaigning against the influence of money in politics for years. Whether it's in general elections or internal party elections, we need to end the secrecy.
"By only publishing donations via the register, candidates can self-finance in order to delay accepting donations, allowing them to publish these later on. You don't have to officially accept a donation for 30 days and then you don't have to declare it for another 28 days...
...so it can be 58 days until it's declared on the register, which will be after the leadership election is over.
"If we're actually serious about financial transparency, political donations need to be published by campaigns themselves in real time...
"If we're actually serious about financial transparency, political donations need to be published by campaigns themselves in real time...
...rather than waiting for the register. Delaying publishing donations until people have voted is anti-democratic. Voters deserve to know what lies behind the candidates they are being asked to vote for, before they cast their vote, not afterwards."
