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Put the money back into politics

Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Put the money back into politics
IT’S AN ELECTION YEAR, so political finance is back in the headlines. We have had the tawdry tale of Yorkshireman Frank Hester, the £10 million Conservative donor who said Diane Abbot makes you “want to hate all black women”. Then there was the hullaballoo over Labour accepting cash from Dale Vince, a New Age traveller turned energy entrepreneur who bankrolled the Swampies of Just Stop Oil. Most recently, there’s been a rumpus over a “K” for Mohamed Mansour, a former Egyptian government minister and Tory treasurer. The commentariat have responded as they always do — with calls to “get the cash out of politics”. There have been the usual knee-jerk demands for state funding of parties, caps on donation sizes and yet more regulators. However, the problem with British politics…
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