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Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

In an earlier debate, our hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) raised with the Deputy Leader of the House, who is no longer in his place, the scenario in which charities would not be allowed to campaign in his constituency, yet political parties could spend £250,000 there, as they did, trying to undermine him and make him lose his seat. Is that not the real scandal of this Bill? It does nothing to address that concern. It will affect charities, who have a genuine right to lobby, but do nothing about such abuses of power.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
567 c919 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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