Sentences with phrase «constitutional research council»

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».

Pro-Brexit campaigners in Scotland need to say whether they were involved, as this comes on top of the murky donations funnelled to the Leave campaign through the DUP by the Scottish Tory - lined Constitutional Research Council.»

However, political sources in Northern Ireland with knowledge of the Commission's affairs have confirmed to openDemocracy that the substantial sanction was connected to the Constitutional Research Council (CRC)-- the secretive group that channelled the # 435,000 to the DUP in Belfast.

The MP who ran Andrea Leadsom's leadership bid tells openDemocracy that he wasn't involved in commissioning a key opinion poll which boosted her campaign and was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

Mr Blackford said «we know that before the EU referendum the DUP received # 425,000 from the Conservative - run Constitutional Research Council (CRC)... we know some of the money was given to Aggregate IQ a reported franchise of Cambridge Analytica... the shady business of data mining and undermining electoral law goes right to the heart of the prime minister's party».

Theresa May's allies in parliament, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), have always insisted that the donation, channelled via a secretive group known as the Constitutional Research Council (CRC), complied fully with the law.

Throughout the conversation, Mr Cook was given multiple opportunities to dismiss the listed # 6,000 fine as nothing to do with the Constitutional Research Council or the DUP.

The origins and full details of the record DUP donation, were arranged through a former vice-chair of the Scottish Conservatives, Richard Cook, who runs a small Glasgow - based organisation called the Constitutional Research Council (CRC).

Under Northern Irish electoral law, the source of this dark money has remained secret but we do know that money came through the Constitutional Research Council, a shadowy group chaired by Richard Cook, a former vice chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

(Baker subsequently received funding from the Constitutional Research Council, the secretive organisation that gave the DUP more than # 425,000 for its Brexit campaign.)

He added: «We have complied not only with the law, but we've gone much further than the law requires... If the Constitutional Research Council wish to publish where they do their fundraising, that is a matter for them, not the DUP.»

When openDemocracy challenged DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson about the donation in his constituency office this spring, he told us that the party had done proper «due diligence» on the donation, but then claimed that they hadn't known that the chair of the Constitutional Research Council had set up a business in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi Arabian intelligence service.

Baker, now a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union, has also received money from the secretive Constitutional Research Council: the same outfit that channeled # 435,000 of «dark money» to the DUP to campaign for Brexit.

openDemocracy investigated, and subsequently revealed that the hefty fine was indeed levied on the DUP's secretive donors, the Constitutional Research Council (CRC).

The Constitutional Research Council's chairman set up a business in 2013 with the former head of Saudi intelligence and a Danish «private banker» who has previously admitted to openDemocracy that he was involved in the Purulia Arms drop, which was a major Indian gun - running plot in 1995.

Our investigations have found that the fine was issued to the DUP's controversial Brexit backers, the Constitutional Research Council, and that the only law it can have broken, given the size and nature of the fine, is of complying with rules requiring them to tell the Electoral Commission where their funding comes from.

A month after Baker took over the role, the group accepted a donation of # 6,500 from the Constitutional Research Council — the same secretive organisation which had previously funnelled a controversial # 435,000 to the DUP for their Brexit campaign, and which has repeatedly refused to disclose the source of this cash.

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Malcolm receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council for his position as a researcher for the Centre on Constitutional Change.