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Conservative Tycoons Splash the Cash: Leadership Hopefuls Rake in Big Donations to Replace Sunak
Front-runner Robert Jenrick comes out top, but ousted candidate Priti Patel raised nearly as much as Kemi Badenoch, while others languish
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Reform UK Repays £200k to Side-Lined Leader Days After Nigel Farage Dethrones Him
Eyebrows raised as accounts show Reform UK rushed to repay £200,000 to Richard Tice, just a week after Nigel Farage took control of the party
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From Russia with Riots: Hostile States ‘Relentlessly’ Seeking to Sow Division, Leading Anti-Corruption Figures Warn
A Government spokesperson told Byline Times tackling foreign interference is an ‘absolute priority’
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Potential Conservative Leadership Candidate Robert Jenrick Blames Donation from Dormant Firm On Administrative Error
The MP reported a donation from a company that appears to be inactive in the UK – which his team has now told Byline Times was a mistake
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The European Congress of Families and The International Organization for the Family
Karam Bales delves into a conference with ties to a Russian backed anti-gender network
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‘Fighting the Enlightenment?’: What Do Danny Kruger’s New Conservatives Really Want?
Among all the new forms of Conservatism springing up in the run up to the next election, Kruger’s New Conservatives appear to be the most religious in their “holy war against the Left”
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Dark Money Lobby Group Denies Sponsoring Liz Truss ‘PopCon’ Platform Set Up by Former Director
Popular Conservatism is registered to a company whose director used to be the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs
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‘The Price of Democracy in the UK has Just Gone Up Massively: The Conservatives Once Again Set the Rules to Benefit Themselves’
Increasing the amount political parties can spend on general elections is another warning sign for British democracy
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Revealed: Britain’s Broken Election Laws Just Got Even Worse
The Government has made it even easier for dark money, foreign influence, and the proceeds of crime to bankroll British politics
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Why Are the Conservatives in a ‘Union’ with Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi?
Peter Geoghegan examines the membership and funding of the International Democracy Union.
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Companies House Failings Enable Global Fraud and Identity Theft
The lax management of the UK companies register allows fake businesses to proliferate
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Tufton Street-Linked Trans-Exclusionary Charity Receives Surge in Funding
The LGB Alliance has received a surge in donations amid ongoing calls for it to lose its charitable status
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Stiff Upper Lip: Who is Behind the Satirical “News” Website Being Promoted By Conservative Peer on GB News?
Byline Times digs into a new hard-right outfit boosted by Lord Bailey of Partygate
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The Tory donor, Soviet-born Billionaire and Fossil Fuel Interests Bankrolling British Politics
Policy Exchange, Institute for Economic Affairs, Global Warming Policy Foundation and co refuse to name their donors. But Peter Geoghegan has found recently published US tax documents that reveal important new details about who funds these secretive think tanks
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Russian Roulette: Foreign Interference and how the Conservatives are Gambling with our Elections
Despots and kleptocrats have their eyes trained on British politics – and our laws are doing little to protect us
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Rishi Sunak is Still Trying to Hide His Financial Interests
The Prime Minister’s pledge to bring in a new era of transparency, integrity and accountability now looks irretrievably broken, reports Adam Bienkov
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Everything to Declare: The Conflicts of Interest Rishi Sunak Won’t Talk About
Despite promising a new era of ‘accountability’ and integrity, Sunak has failed to fully declare his extensive personal and familial financial interests, reports Adam Bienkov
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The ‘Good Washing Machine’: Gold, God, Politics and Turning Point UK
Katherine Denkinson delves into some of the bizarre connections between right-wing student politics, anti-Drag Queen protestors and allegations of smuggling
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The Second-Jobbing MPs Earning Millions Outside Parliament
A Byline Times investigation reveals 20 MPs working the equivalent of at least one day a week on second jobs
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A Mysterious New Addition to the Tufton Street Clique
Max Colbert explores a new company which has just joined the collective of free-market, Brexit, and climate science-denying dark money groups at 55 Tufton Street
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‘Beware Absolute Monarchs Bearing Gifts’
Afsana Lachaux warns of the impact of Britain’s dependence on the £140bn invested by Gulf states, from the impact on London’s housing to a rising political influence
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Daily Mail Group Allowing Sanctioned Russian Data Collection Company to Access Sites
Sites including the Daily Mail and Metro maintain the presence of RU Target, a data specialist advertising company owned by sanctioned Russian state-controlled bank, Sberbank
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Britain’s Other Oligarchs
The Byline Intelligence Team explores how Russian roubles are not the only currency cleaned at London’s laundromat
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Dozens of Phantom Companies Created in the UK Without the Consent of their ‘Owners’
Diogo Augusto investigates loopholes in Companies House business registrations which make Britain ‘the jurisdiction of choice for dirty money’
