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Jonathan Hopkin and Stuart Wilks-Heeg argue the next government needs to reform the current regulation on party financing, even if it will be against its short-term interest.
Political finance in the UK was historically very lightly regulated, until a series of scandals in the 1990s under John Major ’s government drew public attention to some of the barely ethical ways in which the Conservative party in particular was funding its activities.
Likely change of government in the 2024 election could usher in reforms to the regulation of money in politics, says Stuart Wilks-Heeg and Jonathan Hopkin .
The perception of corruption in the Conservative government, from the numerous cases of PPE contracts won by figures close to the party during the acute phase of the Covid pandemic, to recent cases of Tory insiders placing bets on the election date.
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