Full house today at our Liberal Democrat’s fringe event! Important discussions on the impact of SLAPPs, the upcoming Illicit Finance summit, and shifting global anti-corruption norms in an era of Trump. Learn more: ukanticorruptioncoalition.org

📺 TONIGHT 📺 🚨UK's Covid PPE contracts scandal exposed on @itvx.com Don't miss this new documentary exposing the chaos behind COVID contracts. Public money wasted, lives lost, and private companies profiting from this crisis. Watch tonight, 10.20pm on ITV1 📷 ⤵️

As Trump completes his second state visit to the UK, a reminder of one of the many alleged corruption scandals facing his administration: As anti-corruption standards slip (or are brazenly ignored) around the world, the UK must show global leadership. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

🎙️ Is Keir committed to cleaning up politics? Our Chief Executive @danieljbruce.bsky.social joined @alaintolhurst.bsky.social, @suehawley.bsky.social, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Lloyd Hatton MP on this week's The Rundown podcast to answer this question. podfollow.com/politicshome...

🚨 Join the UK Anti-Corruption at Party Conferences 2025! 🚨 Throughout the next month, our coalition will be putting on events at the Liberal Democrat, Labour, and Conservative Party conferences 🧵⬇️ We hope to see you there!

Angela Rayner’s resignation shows just how flimsy our integrity system really is. It should be the catalyst for Labour to finally deliver the robust, statutory ethics and integrity reforms they promised writes @anticorruption.bsky.social's Professor Robert Barrington

🆕: Leaders from the anti-corruption space have written to the new Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP and new Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, urging them to continue the UK’s leadership on illicit finance and commit to hosting the upcoming international summit. Read our letters below:

🆕 BLOG 🆕 Up to £10 billion could be laundered through UK property each year, according to the latest government risk assessment. From opaque trusts to crypto schemes, criminals are finding new ways to hide dirty money. Read more ⤵️ www.transparency.org.uk/news/authori...

"It is unclear how the new financial penalties will be enforced and there are no changes to the rules on the revolving door, which urgently need strengthening" Our thoughts on the Government's new ethics announcements in the @financialtimes.com ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/0ff2...

Government plans for a new Ethics Commission are welcome, but without laws that enshrines the existence of the Ministerial Code of Conduct, ministerial standards will still rely on the ‘good chaps’ theory of government. Our full statement 👇 www.transparency.org.uk/news/new-eth...

🚨🆕Almost a year after Bangladesh's autocratic leader fled into exile, new investigations reveal that figures linked to the former regime - now under investigation - appear to have sold or refinanced millions worth of UK property. 🚨 Read more👇: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🆕 The political finance bits of the government’s new election strategy paper released today are good 👍 but with a few tweaks they could be great 🌟. We look forward to helping push the ambition of the Bill to ensure it is as strong as possible in protecting UK democracy from malign or foreign actors.

Today, the Government released their long-awaited Strategy for Modern and Secure Elections. Out experts outline some of the key provisions in the White Paper and talk through what’s missing ⬇️

I'd like bits to go further and I'd want transparency and anti-corruption specialists to be heavily involved in shaping the policies. But after the last govt's project of voter suppression, it is deeply rewarding to see a govt intent on widening participation.

🆕 @spotlightcorruption.org welcomes today’s announcement that the government will bring forward an Elections Bill which will address the threat of illicit money being funnelled from abroad to UK political parties. 👇 See our quote from @jamesbj.bsky.social:

🚨 STATEMENT 🚨 This morning, @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social, the Minister for Homelessness and Democracy, outlined the Government's new strategy to protect our democracy from malign influence. www.gov.uk/government/p... We welcome this move. Statement from our Chair Joe Powell here 👇

🗣️ "Crackdown on foreign donations welcome, but bolder action needed to end corrupting influence of big money." See our full statement on the government's new elections strategy published today ⤵️ www.transparency.org.uk/news/crackdo...

The Government is getting on with what it was elected to do - restoring trust in politics as a force for good. But could our plans to protect elections from dirty money and foreign influence be even bolder? Read my initial thoughts on today's announcements 👇 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

"The consequences of poor financial crime controls are very real – they allow criminals to launder the proceeds of their crimes, and they allow fraudsters to defraud consumers." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Europe’s new anti-money laundering watchdog has warned that crypto assets are its biggest challenge to stop dirty money infiltrating the region’s financial system: www.ft.com/content/84a4...

Barclays fined £42mn for failed money laundering checks https://on.ft.com/4kDFKkd

NEW: Over the past 2 decades, more than £60 million has flowed into British politics through exploiting critical loopholes in our election laws. In 2025 alone, close to £700,000 has been handed to political parties through these routes. Read more⬇️: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-to-sec...

⬇️An important and timely report from @appgonacrt.bsky.social Tackling economic crime is essential for enabling long-term, sustainable economic growth in the UK. In fact, good growth is impossible without clean economic foundations -- and that's exactly what this new report demonstrates. ⤵️

🚨NEW: After yet another missed deadline, Sir Andrew Mitchell MP and Lloyd Hatton MP are encouraging the Government to use all the tools at its disposal – including an already-drafted Order in Council – to end financial secrecy in the British Virgin Islands. shorturl.at/nmiHW

🆕: We wrote to Rachel Reeves to warn against the reintroduction of ‘Golden Visa' schemes. 🚨These schemes carry huge national security risks, render the UK economy vulnerable to flows of dirty money, and provide negligible – if any – benefit to the UK taxpayer. ow.ly/ujt450Wmocv

🔥 Really important intervention here by @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org,‬ pushing back against calls for new ‘golden visas’. The UK’s previous golden visa scheme was scrapped because it created huge national security risks while providing negligible economic benefit.

🔎Meanwhile, new tax enforcement stats obtained by TaxWatch show that HMRC letters to 1,277 UK residents named in the 2021 'Pandora Papers' offshore leak have so far generated just 22 disclosures of undeclared offshore income. More here: taxwatchuk.org/broken-offsh...

📺NEW VIDEO📺 Last night, key British offshore financial centres failed to meet their own deadline for revealing who owns companies registered there. It’s time the UK Government escalates its response & ensures places like the BVI are no longer safe havens for the world's corrupt. Watch and read ⤵️

🚨UK TAX HAVENS MISS ANOTHER CRITICAL FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY DEADLINE 🚨 UK offshore financial centres have once again failed to comply with the deadline for ending corporate secrecy. ➡️NOW: We’re calling on the Government to act. Read our full statement: ow.ly/M3ww50WiYsp

Hugely important work at an influential organisation👇

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💥 📰 "In captured economies, the relationship between talent and success is severed. The country’s infrastructure deteriorates. The result is lower growth, fewer jobs, rising inequality, and high inflation." @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...

💷 We need to get big money out of our politics. The government's plans to reform rules on corporate donations are a step forward but sadly, they don't go far enough. @jemm-s.bsky.social explains ⤵️

🚨 📰 Some great recent reporting from our friends at @theferret.scot 1️⃣ They investigated Scottish Limited Partnerships, including one company linked to an international money laundering scandal involving an estimated £770m. theferret.scot/muirhouse-sl...

🥳We are celebrating 10 years of @opencontracting.bsky.social 💚10 years of transforming public procurement to better serve people & planet rather than bureaucracy 📈With amazing partners, we've helped improve $110bn of public spending & reach 200m lives www.open-contracting.org/2025/03/24/m...

I made a closing oral statement on behalf of the @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org to the UK Covid Inquiry today. I summarised our data-driven analysis of poor pandemic purchasing by the UK & shared our key recommendations 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Last week, at the UK's Covid Inquiry, Matt Hancock incorrectly dismissed procurement data comparisons on the UK's runaway purchasing of PPE compared to its European peers. He is incorrect in his assertions 👇 www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/blog/matt-ha...

🚨 📝 Last week, the former Health Secretary alleged our evidence submission to the Covid Inquiry contained “meaningless” data lacking “factual value”. ❌ This is a serious, but wrong, charge. 🧾 Our Co-Chair @opengavin.bsky.social kept the receipts: www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/blog/matt-ha...

APPG chair @joepowell.bsky.social & several members have signed the below letter calling for BP to raise the case of anti-corruption activist Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu’s internment in Azerbaijan Campaigners shouldn't face harassment/imprisonment exposing wrongdoing crudeaccountability.org/wp-content/u...

📻 "It designed the triaging of offers of PPE to have a tick by them... because they had been referred by connections of politicians." Following Matt Hancock's evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry yesterday, @danieljbruce.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about the problems of the UK's VIP lane.

🚨 Very important call from our friends at @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social. 👍 Greater corporate transparency in Britain's Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories could help governments recover huge sums lost to economic crime and tax abuse.

📺 Great to see Lloyd Hatton MP, member of @appgonacrt.bsky.social sky.social, support a cap on political donations and real power for the Electoral Commission. We've long called for sensible policies to tackle big money in politics. With an Elections Bill due soon, these changes are long overdue.

📁 📚 The Covid Inquiry Module 5 (public procurement) continues to hear evidence this week. 📝 We gave evidence last week, and provided this extensive submission ahead of Module 5: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...

🚨 12 charged with bribery and misconduct in Merseyside, including the former Liverpool mayor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 🗣️ 📽️ @danieljbruce.bsky.social of @transparencyuk.bsky.social gave evidence for our coalition at the Covid Inquiry this week. ❗ Here he makes the point that unlike comparable countries, the UK failed to "stop and learn" as it navigated public procurement challenges during the pandemic.

🗣️ “There is something of an arms race in campaigning expenditure and therefore fundraising.” Ahead of today's commons debate on the UK's political finance rules (led by Lloyd Hatton MP ), @duncanhames.bsky.social spoke to @politico.eu about big money in politics. www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

🗣️"We cross-checked peer countries, consulted with @anticorruption.bsky.social in around 100 other countries... [the] VIP lane was a completely unique feature to the UK's pandemic response." Yesterday @danieljbruce.bsky.social told the Covid Inquiry why the UK's VIP lane made it a worrying outlier.