MPs advertising products on behalf of private companies, or being brand ambassadors, creates very real conflicts of interest. If the MPs code of conduct doesn't address this, then it's a major gap that needs to be addressed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition is seeking a Coalition Engagement and Communications Coordinator to support joint advocacy and impactful communications at a key moment for the UK’s anti-corruption agenda.
Apply by 15 April:
app.beapplied.com/apply/amv4py...
💸 Dirty money corrodes the rule of law and strengthens authoritarian networks.
Tomorrow (April 14), the National Liberal Club hosts a timely panel on combating illicit finance, featuring @duncanhames.bsky.social and @suehawley.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets: members.nlc.org.uk/web/pages/ev...
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition is seeking a Coalition Engagement and Communications Coordinator to support joint advocacy and impactful communications at a key moment for the UK’s anti-corruption agenda.
Apply by 15 April:
app.beapplied.com/apply/amv4py...
📅 Ahead of the UK’s Illicit Finance Summit in June, join us on April 14 at the National Liberal Club to discuss combatting dirty money.
Great to see UKACC member organisations represented by @suehawley.bsky.social and @duncanhames.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets here:
members.nlc.org.uk/web/pages/ev...
🆕 BLOG
Ten years ago, the Panama Papers revealed how the rich and powerful hide stolen wealth through secret offshore companies. Now the UK is hosting a global summit to tackle illicit finance — but first, it needs to finish cleaning up at home.
Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/ten-yea...
🎥 10 years ago, the Panama Papers exposed corruption to the world.
It uncovered billions of suspect funds moving through the global economy and how corrupt elites were hiding their stolen wealth.
Since then, progress has been made but the flow of dirty money remains.
🔗Full link in comments ⤵️
A decade on from the publication of the #PanamaPapers, offshore secrecy still helps the corrupt hide and move dirty money.
UK Anti-Corruption Coalition members have pushed tirelessly for reform. Some progress has been made, but there is more to be done.
💥 NEW: We welcome the government’s ‘complete ban’ on political crypto donations which hit the headlines last week, but there has since been speculation over just how comprehensive it will actually be.
Here's our assessment of what needs to happen next ⬇️
www.spotlightcorruption.org/making-the-u...
🔊The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has brought its first ever #McMafia Order vs 85 luxury London properties worth over £81m. It’s great to see the CPS using #UnexplainedWealthOrders which require Su Jiangbo- the owner of the properties according to the media - to explain the origin of his wealth.
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"In 2015, only 1 per cent of private donations came from companies and individuals giving £1 million or more; by 2024, this had risen to 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱."
New research from @rosewhiff.bsky.social & @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social on the super rich's growing influence on UK politics.
More ⤵️
🎥 Does your MP support stopping mega donations from the super rich?
💷 With the Elections Bill having second reading today, there are already numerous MPs that want to stop big money corrupting our politics.
🔄 Share this video if you want your MP to end big money corrupting our politics.
🎥 BIG MONEY IS CORRUPTING OUR POLITICS 🎥
UK politics has a big money problem 💷
The super-rich use money to buy honours, influence and access to power. It erodes trust in our politics and undermines our democracy.
The UK needs a cap on donations to end big money in our politics.
More below ⤵️
NEW: Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompted a reckoning with the UK's role as a hub for illicit Russian finance.
But how effective has the UK's response been? 4 years on, our experts are warning that the fight against Russian kleptocracy remains.
www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/four-ye...
🚨 NEW: Today's arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor puts the Misconduct in Public Office offence under the spotlight.
👉 This is a law that needs tightening to ensure that our criminal law is fit for purpose.
Read our full statement:
www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/stateme...
🚨 NEW: UK hits new low in corruption perception index.
📉 This is not a blip, but a persistent decline. Without action, it risks becoming a defining feature of our political culture.
Let's clean up our politics. Learn more:
www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
🗣️"This persistent decline is not a temporary blip - it risks becoming a defining feature of our political culture"
As the UK receives it's lowest ever score in #CPI2025
@danieljbruce.bsky.social warns that business as usual is not enough to turn the corner.
➡️ transparency.org/en/cpi/2025
States are increasingly restricting freedoms of expression, association and assembly.
In the #CPI2025, 36 of the 50 countries with significant score declines since 2012 have also seen reduced civic space. Learn more. ⬇️
🗣️ "The UK government must demonstrate that it is serious about restoring integrity.”
As @anticorruption.bsky.social launches #CPI2025, @danieljbruce.bsky.social warned @theguardian.com that only real reform will reverse the UK's decline.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
💥 Great piece from @pollytoynbee.bsky.social echoing our calls for real reform to restore trust in politics.
As today's #CPI2025 result shows, this persistent decline is not a temporary blip - it risks becoming a defining feature of our political culture.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
📽️ 1/ Today, Britain dropped to its lowest placing in @anticorruption.bsky.social's global Corruption Perceptions Index.
🚨 Our Chair @philbrickellmp.bsky.social says this "must serve as a wake-up call for the Government."
@transparencyuk.bsky.social
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✊ Keen to join the fight against #corruption?
🫵 You might be the person we need! We’re looking for a comms adviser to join the friendly Spotlight team.
Apply below 👇. Deadline: 14 Feb.
🎥 "The situation we have at the end of the day is... whatever rules you have, all of this conversation is about policing the perimeter."
Yesterday @duncanhames.bsky.social gave evidence to parliament and explained to MPs and Peers why caps on donations are key to ending undue influence in politics.
🚨🚨 7 Select Committee Chairs urge PM to ban crypto donations 👇👇
Like them, we've called for a ban on crypto donations to political parties because they are hard to trace, facilitate risky borderless transfers, and can obscure the true source of funds.
➡️ Read more here: shorturl.at/B8hIs
📋 With 120 commitments, it's an ambitious strategy that needs to turn into action - fast.
🗣️ As our co-chair, @opengavin.bsky.social said:
"We finally have a clear diagnosis. What we need next is bold, rapid action that the public can see and feel."
📃 On Monday, the Government published their anti-corruption strategy.
🚀 UKACC joined Deputy PM David Lammy, @danjarvismp.bsky.social, Anti-Corruption Champion Margaret Hodge, @appgonacrt.bsky.social, and many others in launching it!
🚨⏰ BREAKING — Over 1000 days since the last strategy expired, the government just published their new anti-corruption strategy.
Our coalition of experts have shared their initial reaction, urging the government to go from ambition to action.
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www.ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/from-as...
Ahead of todays’s launch of the UKs Anti Corruption Strategy, watch below to hear why corruption is not some far away problem, but has a corrosive influence on all of our daily lives.
And do give the UKACC page a follow to keep up date of all the brill work CSOs in the sector are doing.
🤔 Corruption may seem far away from our normal lives. But it’s actually in our communities, our economy, and our politics too.
🌍 It’s a whole-of-society problem that needs a whole-of-society solution.
🗣️That’s what we’re calling for here at UKACC — and we want you to join us 🫵
