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Mark @[email protected] · 2026-02-08 · 11:16 UTC

#KeirStarmer under fire over visit to #Palantir with Peter Mandelson

#Starmer is facing questions over his visit with disgraced Mandelson to #US #tech firm Palantir’s offices in Washington

Downing Street refused to say whether the PM knew the firm was a client of the former #Labour peer’s #lobbying firm at the time, The Financial Times is reporting.

Palantir has since won a massive £240m UK Government contract.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25835891.keir-starmer-fire-visit-palantir-peter-mandelson/

#corruption #BoycottUSA #BigData #backhanders

#backhanders #bigdata #boycottusa #corruption #lobbying #labour

Mark @[email protected] · 2024-09-12 · 11:14 UTC

Lobbying firms #secretly helped new Labour MPs to get elected

A #lobbyist can give a Labour MP £1,499 without it being declared. And that’s still true if they give 30 Labour MPs £1,499

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/lobbying-firms-fund-new-labour-mps-not-declared-register-of-interests

#corruption #UK #Labour #politics #Tory #lobbying #bribes #backhanders

#backhanders #bribes #lobbying #tory #politics #labour

Totts @[email protected] · 2023-05-24 · 11:12 UTC

At #PMQs Sharon Hodgson, uses parliamentary privilege to say the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Simon Clarke and Michael Gove MP, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, are both receiving 'donations' from Ian Waller a man who is backing and will gain from TeeSide #FreePort

(Waller is a director and shareholder of Northern Land Management, a company that has a 25% stake in Teesworks Ltd.)

#Corruption
#Backhanders

more details here ...

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/government-minister-accused-of-breaking-ministerial-code-over-teesworks-donation-4154732

#backhanders #corruption #freeport #pmqs