Firm that supports aspiring politicians helped launch three APPGs chaired by new Tory MPs
College Green offers to help would-be MPs on their “journey” to Westminster – including setting up parliamentary groups
Search for your MP to see what donations they’ve received.
What are the Westminster Accounts?
Over £183 million of outside funds has flowed into this parliament alone, with no way of working out who’s getting what, from whom, and why. Until now. Tortoise and Sky News have launched the Westminster Accounts, the first fully searchable database of the money being used to lubricate the machinery of British politics.
It’s time for Westminster to stop preaching transparency and set its house in order
The Westminster Accounts project has shown how the current rules can’t keep the system honest.
British MPs regularly accept expenses-paid trips to the Cayman Islands
On one visit, MPs told the local government it could sue the UK for attempting to close loopholes for tax evasion and financial crime.
How the former PM became the highest earning MP.
A well-funded charm offensive is yielding results in Westminster.
Former MEP offered paying subscribers access to a meeting of vaccine sceptics in parliament
The event was also attended by anti-vaxx campaigner Dr Aseem Malhotra, and Tory MPs Desmond Swayne and Andrew Bridgen.
Listen
Five of the biggest revelations from The Westminster Accounts, including who the highest earners are, where they get their money from, and the perks they receive.
How we got here
Following the money
by John Ryley and James Harding
Sun 8 January 2022
Without greater transparency, money will influence our politics in the dark. It’s time to check who is paying our politicians and to ask why.
Letting the light in
by Katherine Riley and Joseph White
Sun 8 January 2022
The fact that all of this data was already public meant that collating it all couldn’t be that hard, right? Wrong. Very wrong.
The Westminster Accounts – Methodology
Sun 8 January 2022
The process of collecting, analysing and visualising tens of thousands of financial records gets very complicated very quickly – here’s how we did it.
More reporting from the Westminster Accounts
Boris Johnson tops MP donations after receiving £1 million donation
Although his predecessor, Theresa May, still tops the leaderboard for total outside earnings declared by MPs
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Hancock’s crypto hankering
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Sensemaker: Big spenders, little footprints
What just happened
Tory MPs accepted donations worth thousands from mystery donors
Northern MPs were told to accept money from a company they’d never heard of
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Without greater transparency, money will influence our politics in the dark. It’s time to check who is paying our politicians and to ask why
The fight over rewilding
Brexit was meant to transform land management. Some MPs have other ideas
NICE job
£300,000 for a precious tweak to healthcare policy
Come fly, MP
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