Is that not the real point here: many of those charities and third-party organisations have engaged with the general public and brought them into the political processes in a way that all the political parties represented in Westminster have struggled to do in recent years?
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Andrew Gwynne
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 10 September 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill.
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2013-14
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2013-12-20 04:18:43 +0000
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