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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I am a little bemused about where all the treasurers with these problems will be. I have examined every set of accounts for the past four years for every constituency party on the Electoral Commission's website, and I can inform my right hon. Friend that there are very few local parties across the House that receive such large donations, either from abroad or from this country. This is not a problem that my treasurer has faced. It is not a problem in any Labour constituencies or for the smaller Opposition parties. There is only one party that has this problem: the Conservative party. Is not the point of the measure that it is about democracy and fairness in our system? My right hon. Friend is being far too generous to these people who are undemocratically funded by overseas donors.

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Reference

496 c64 

Session

2008-09

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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