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Published in: Home: FeatureBritain wants to ban boycotts of Israel. Does that mean they’re working?The Tories want to stop public bodies engaging in ‘BDS’ campaigns – but that’s unlikely to stop grassroots organisers
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Published in: Home: NewsBoris Johnson’s new Lords appointees have donated £17m to the Tory PartyJohnson put Tory donors in the Lords at twice the rate of any other PM since 2013, openDemocracy analysis shows
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionThere’s a new expenses scandal, but Westminster is silentOPINION: Taxpayers are still being billed huge sums for controversial expenses, from MPs’ PR to business class flights
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationParliament’s £180m expenses bonanza: photoshoots and business class flightsExclusive: Train enthusiast MP claimed £52,000 on London hotels, instead of catching the train
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Peer claims £18,000 expenses for ‘doing nothing’New House of Lords expenses scandal as member claimed ‘daily allowance’ to attend, despite never speaking or voting
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationNHS chair urged exec to meet US health firm he had business links toExclusive: Emails reveal Lord Prior told officials to meet the boss of Teladoc, which was ‘keen to expand’ into UK
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Published in: Home: OpinionI sit in the House of Lords. That’s how I know it needs to goNATALIE BENNETT: I’ve seen first-hand how our unelected upper chamber stops us tackling the government’s bad laws
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Priti Patel tipped for House of Lords seatKey Boris Johnson ally, twice accused of breaking Ministerial Code, could be named in ex-PM’s resignation honours
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Published in: Home: NewsClimate science denial backers could be given peerages by Boris JohnsonEx-Global Warming Policy Foundation boss who said UK should ‘move on’ from climate change reportedly on honours list
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Energy crisis has made 30 House of Lords members wealthierPeers stand to make thousands from BP’s bumper profits as British households are told average bills could treble
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Published in: Home: InvestigationRevealed: Lords complain of ‘poor wine’ and ‘too much salmon’ in ParliamentExclusive: Peers sent angry letters about the ‘disappointing’ taxpayer-subsidised food and drink served in the Lords
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Published in: Home: NewsBoris Johnson could be forced to release secret Evgeny Lebedev dossierThe government faces a vote over the controversial appointment of the newspaper baron, a personal friend of the PM,...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Ukraine war makes Lords members richer through arms investmentsTory peers are among five House of Lords members with investments of at least £50,000 in BAE Systems
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe can still force a U-turn on the UK’s anti-democratic Elections BillJohnson’s government is rewriting the rules to make sure there can only be one winner – and we can’t let that happen
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsNow Met Police won’t say why it refused to probe House of Lords ‘corruption’Exclusive: The force said coming clean on its failure to investigate ‘cash for peerages’ scandal could cause it...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsUK peers face tighter rules on financial interests, after openDemocracy investigationExclusive: Members of the House of Lords will have to provide details of companies they have ‘significant control’...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMet Police silent despite calls to investigate Tory ‘cash for peers’ scandal
Opposition MPs demand police inquiry after openDemocracy revealed Conservative treasurers who donate £3m seem almost...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationWant a seat in the House of Lords? Be Tory treasurer and donate £3mExclusive: Senior Tory accuses Boris Johnson of overseeing ‘scandal in plain sight’ as it’s revealed party...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: News43 Lords have financial interests in fossil fuel industryPoliticians accused of being ‘worryingly cosy’ with oil and gas firms as it’s revealed almost one in ten Tory peers...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsAlan Sugar among 24 lords to have broken finance rules, parliamentary watchdog rulesExclusive: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes also among peers named in official UK ruling, following an...
