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Anneliese Dodds MP House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 2
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August 2021 Dear Anneliese, Thank you for your letter. As you know, all political parties raise money and accept donations in order to pay their staff and campaign in elections. Indeed in the past year the Labour Party has taken just over £1.2 million from Unite. Due to Labour infighting, this has fallen by over £4.5 million since August 2019. Over the weekend I read that the Labour Party is now seeking donations from billionaire businessmen, such as Lord Sainsbury and Sir Trevor Chinn. I would also like to remind you that the Labour Party runs its own Chair Circle Membership group and the Rose Network whose members can pay a fee to get access to Sir Keir Starmer, yourself, and other senior Labour Party Shadow Cabinet members.
On your website it states that: “As a Rose Network member, you’ll be invited to a
programme of events, including live webinar discussions with key politicians.” If political parties didn’t have a fundraising system in place they would be forced to use
taxpayers money. This would mean less money for frontline services like schools, police and hospitals. I am sure that the Labour Party would not support less money going to the public services that are the backbone of our country. Government policy is in no way influenced by the donations the Party receives
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they are entirely separate. Any donation made to the Conservative Party is properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission and published by them. Yours sincerely,
THE RT. HON. AMANDA MILLING MP
Co-Chairman of The Conservative Party
