Ashcroft Funding
Lord Ashcroft is exploiting a loophole in the political donations laws in order to fund the Conservative Party. He is sending his money from a tax haven in Central America through one of his British-registered companies.
This money is entirely legal for the Conservatives to accept.
However, it does appear to break the spirit of the law over political donations. Whilst no-one can blame Ashcroft or the Conservatives for doing this - especially not the Labour Party, with their own actually illegal donations - that doesn’t mean that it should be allowed to continue.
Loopholes of any sort shouldn’t be allowed to exist once they are discovered. The Electoral Commission should endeavour close this one off as soon as possible, and Ashcroft should cease chanelling money in this way immediately - and instead donate it personally.
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Agreed. This isn’t the way that the Conservatives should be doing business.
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