Keir Starmer
Revealed: No 10 advisor involved in AI policy has financial interests in AI
Varun Chandra left an MI6-linked consultancy to join Starmer’s government, but he still has a stake in its AI-backing investment fund
The Dark Arts
Keir Starmer
Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms
Quadrature’s donation is noteworthy not just for being Labour’s largest-ever, but for its timing ahead of election
Labour
You have no right to know which MPs got elected with the help of lobbyists
A lobbyist can give a Labour MP £1,499 without it being declared. And that's still true if they give 30 Labour MPs £1,499
Keir Starmer
Concerts, clothes and New York breaks: New ministers take £170,000 of gifts
Starmer has accepted more than anybody else since start of 2023, raising questions over what donors get in return
Keir Starmer
Inside the Westminster networking events where lobbyists and politicians mix
No 10 refused to say who attended a Downing Street business reception. So Dark Arts found out
Keir Starmer
The army of private sector secondees who helped Labour win
Private firms have given Labour £1.8m worth of secondments and pro-bono work since 2022. What do they get in return?
Keir Starmer
Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business
An openDemocracy investigation reveals the secretive mass lobbying campaign that shaped Starmer's policies
Israel
Revealed: The secretive group taking MPs on propaganda trips to Israel
Source said visit organised by ELNET for Labour staffers had ‘clear agenda’ to shape policies of next government
Gaza
The lobbyist connecting Labour’s top team with arms firms and energy bosses
While fighting raged in Gaza in October, top Labour figures met with the CEO of a major supplier of arms to Israel
Labour
A Labour win won’t stop shadowy right-wing think tanks influencing policy
Revealed: Labour frontbenchers forming close links with think tank behind Sunak’s draconian policing and protest laws
Labour
One seat, two candidates accused of buying their chance to become its MP
How a Labour lobbying boss and a Tory nepo-baby ‘paid’ their way onto the ballot in rural Suffolk
Political Influence
Inside the lobbying campaign to force Labour's next U-turn
How the City fought back against plans to close a £600m loophole, plus more Labour lobbyist candidates