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.