Claim John Swinney stayed at Peter Mandelson's residence is Mostly True
The first minister has been criticised online for staying with Mandelson on a trip to the US last year. We looked at the truth behind the claims.
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£1,800 fine for £2.35m Tory dark money trust damned as ‘derisory’
An £1,800 fine imposed on a Tory dark money trust is “derisory” and “an advert to break the rules”
Tory ‘dark money’ trust fined £1,800 by Electoral Commission
A “dark money” trust that gave £364,000 to the Scottish Conservatives has been fined £1,800 by the UK
Electoral Commission criticised over delayed ‘dark money’ probe
The Electoral Commission has been criticised for taking more than 14 months to investigate a so-called “dark money” trust linked
Westminster bill risks ‘flood’ of foreign dark money into politics
A Westminster bill to scrap a time limit on donations to political parties from UK citizens living abroad could unleash
£2m cost of Scotland’s peers sparks call for reforms
Peers living in Scotland have claimed more than £2.1 million from taxpayers over 12 months, up 16 per cent
1p per person: how local democracy is being ‘systematically eroded’
A survey of the funding of every community council in Scotland has sparked claims that the bodies are being systematically
Call for Westminster probe into Tory ‘dark money’ donations
A campaign group has written to Westminster’s Commissioner for Standards to request an investigation into the conduct of two
Electoral Commission probes £319,000 Tory ‘dark money’ trust
A secretive trust without a fixed address or known current trustees that gave £319,000 to the Scottish Conservatives is
Scotland Office used tax-payer funded Facebook ads to ‘manipulate voters’
UK civil servants have been accused of using taxpayer cash to manipulate potential voters on Facebook, which one critic said