New Tory Minister’s Bio-tech and Agri-Business Lobbying Past Questioned

Posted on May 14, 2010 in blog, Caroline Spelman, frontpage, projects The Sunlight Centre today wrote to the Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs regarding the conflict of interest arising from the appointment of Caroline Spelman MP as the Secretary for State for the department. Until last year Spelman co-owned Spelman, Cormack & Associates, a food and biotechnology lobbying firm she set up in 1989 with her husband, Mr...
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Make Jacqui Pay

Posted on May 6, 2010 in blog, frontpage, Jacqui Smith As a follow-up to our Ed Balls attack ad yesterday, the Sunlight Centre has used money raised from your generous donating to today purchase Google Ads on all terms relating to Jacqui Smith, urging voters to Make Jacqui Smith Pay for her expenses abuse: Here’s a reminder of some of Ms Smith’s expense claims: She became the expenses scandal “poster girl” after her husband...
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Do You Really Know Ed Balls?

Posted on May 4, 2010 in Expenses Index, frontpage, projects Attack Ad running from 6 pm tonight in Morley and Outwood on local media websites Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Evening Post, Morley and Outwood Observer and Wakefield Express from 6pm. Transparency and anti-corruption campaigners at the Sunlight Centre have bought advertising space for a video which attacks Ed Balls for expenses abuses including flipping his house three times, claiming for a...
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