Sentences with phrase «dup donation»

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).

He asked Chloe Smith if she had satisfied herself on the source of the DUP donation and whether it had been legal.

But, crucially, he has gone back on a prior commitment to backdate transparency to 2014 so that the source of the vast DUP donation could be revealed — despite calls from all the Northern Irish political parties (apart from the DUP) to do so.

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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.

The DUP, Theresa May's key allies in parliament, have always claimed that the unprecedented # 435,000 donation to their Brexit campaign complied fully with the law.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

By a majority of one, the government effectively succeeded in keeping secret the full details of a # 435,000 donation to the DUP that was made during the Brexit referendum in 2016.

In the run - up to March's Northern Irish assembly elections DUP leader Arlene Foster denied knowing the size of the donation or the specific source.

After the Brexit vote, the DUP transferred # 9,000 remaining from the donation it received for its Brexit campaign into normal party funds.

It appears that the secretive group that channelled a controversial # 435,000 donation to the DUP's Brexit campaign has been forced to pay a record fine — for failing to properly disclose to the UK authorities where the cash came from, openDemocracy can reveal today.

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.

The secret donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular interest because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

She is hiding the true source of this donation and the only conclusion here, is this protects the deal the government has with the DUP.»

The # 435,000 donation given to the DUP's Brexit campaign has been the source of on - going controversy.

After openDemocracy first reported the scale of the record donation to the DUP's lavish Brexit campaign, Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire announced an end to donor secrecy in NI.

In often heated exchanges and interruptions by two DUP MPs — Ian Paisley Jnr and Sammy Wilson — who were attending the committee debate but were not eligible to vote, both accused Labour of remaining fixated on the result of the referendum and on failures to address the «millions» Sinn Fein received in foreign donations.

The DUP has told openDemocracy that they «don't need to know» who the individuals behind the CRC donations are.

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.

The # 435,000 donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular controversy because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

But openDemocracy has now discovered that Cambridge Analytica's establishment links run even deeper, leading to one of the most senior figures in Northern Irish unionism — a PR man who has represented everyone from British Airways to Russian oligarchs — and raising questions once more about who gave the DUP a secretive # 435,000 donation for its Brexit campaign.

However, the DUP's revelation that a shady group with no clear history of activity beyond funnelling money to right - wing causes was the source of its vast campaign donation in fact leaves us no clearer about where the Brexit campaign cash actually came from — including any potential links to the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency.

The government has been accused of trying to cover up for the DUP as it reverses a law which promised transparency in Northern Irish political donations from 2014.

Bryant has asked Brokenshire to confirm who the «regulated entity» is, and whether the fine relates to the unprecedented # 435,000 donation given to Mrs May's Westminster allies, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), in order to campaign for Brexit.

This admission raises questions about how much the DUP checked about where the # 425,000 donation was coming from, which Electoral Commission guidelines indicate they should.

Why is James Brokenshire colluding with the DUP to cover up Northern Irish donations between 2014 and 2017?

The Conservative party's minority government is being propped up in parliament by the DUP, and any change which exposed the DUP - CRC donation arrangement is likely to be resisted.

The measure means that while the Electoral Commission can now publish information about any donations since July last year — and in the future — it is still banned from sharing key information about donations to Northern Irish parties during a period which included the European referendum, when the DUP received # 435,000 for their Brexit campaign from an unknown source via a secretive group in Glasgow whose chair set up a company in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi intelligence service.

«I am very keen to see much greater transparency about this substantial donation to the DUP, and will be writing again to the Electoral Commission seeking further details.»

Today, the UK government is trying to sneak through a law which will bury the DUP's huge Brexit donation in another layer of secrecy.

Our reporting on the DUP's secret Brexit donation; on the finances of the Leave campaign's biggest backer Arron Banks; and on the many groups seeking to shape Brexit have been picked up by media across the world.

Rather than backdate transparency rules to 2014 — which would reveal the source of the # 435,000 DUP cash — Brokenshire announced earlier this year that the change, which will be made through secondary legislation, would only apply to donations and loans received after 1st July 2017.

All rights reserved.A number of major political donors have denied they are the source of a controversial # 435,000 donation to the DUP's Brexit campaign, openDemocracy can reveal today — with only one person refusing to distance themself from the secret donation.

All of the DUP's remaining registered donations came from public bodies.

Our reporting on the DUP's secret Brexit donation; on the finances of the Leave campaign's biggest backer Arron Banks; and on the many groups seeking to shape Brexit have prompted questions in parliament.

The Electoral Commission's disclosure comes after a long - awaited change in the law in Northern Ireland — and after additional pressure for transparency was triggered by openDemocracy's revelation that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had taken a controversial # 435,000 donation for its Brexit campaign.

The Electoral Commission has confirmed to openDemocracy that in the European referendum, where the whole country was treated as a single constituency, donations made to a Northern Irish party such as the DUP could be used to fund campaigning in Scotland, England and Wales, and yet Northern Irish secrecy laws still apply to this cash.

«Has she seen the very worrying series of reports this week by openDemocracy, on the role of dark money in the EU referendum, including revelations of illegal donations to the DUP and new questions today over the real wealth of Arron Banks, the main financial backer of Leave?

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.»