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

I would have hoped that the hon. Gentleman would agree that election campaigns were about political parties fighting together to secure the election of one of the candidates, and that if, for instance, an industrialist who was very pro-fracking decided that he or she wanted to unseat a parliamentary candidate who was anti-fracking and was prepared to spend just under £1 million under the current legislation in unseating that candidate, the hon. Gentleman would not support that. We certainly do not want to allow that to happen.

Further, also under subsection (6)—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
568 c245 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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