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The Guardian - UK
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Gina Miller

How is it right that MPs are still free to receive money from lobbyists and second jobs?

Winston Churchill’s statue overlooks parliament.
Winston Churchill’s statue overlooks parliament. Photograph: Neil Lang/Alamy

This week we learned that MPs have received £183m on top of their parliamentary salaries since December 2019, after publicly available information on their financial interests was brought together in one place for the first time.

The Westminster Accounts tool, created by Sky News and Tortoise media, is intended to increase public transparency, and lifts the lid on obscure donation practices and how money is corrupting our politics.

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