Tuesday 16 April 2024

STARMER - BLOOMBERG

Keir Starmer in ‘cash for access’ scandal over meetings with BLOOMBERG after it donated £150k to Labour

“Labour leader Keir Starmer, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, and four other senior party figures met with a major media and financial information conglomerate weeks after it donated £150,000 to the party – sparking concerns of ‘cash for access’ …

“The meeting between Labour and the BLOOMBERG group, which took place in Edinburgh on 8 December last year, was described as ‘suspicious’ and ‘highly unusual’ by two Labour sources.

“The private roundtable event came shortly after the US business conglomerate, majority owned by American businessman and politician MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, made its first donation to Labour in seven years.

“The meeting took place less than two weeks after Bloomberg Trading Facility Ltd, a subsidiary of Bloomberg LP, donated £150,000 to Labour – with the conglomerate becoming one of the party’s top corporate donors for all of 2023 in a single day …”

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/labour-cash-for-access-meeting-bloomberg-lobbying-donations/

1 Comments:

At 16 April 2024 at 00:59 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Keir Starmer places higher priority on a £150k donation to the Labour Party, rather than hundreds of billions paid in taxation to HMRC every year, in terms of framing policy, then not only is he unfit to work in public life, but he is arguably committing treason and should face the consequences of that.

Voters fund the country, Starmer. Never forget that.....

 

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