Political organisations would face unlimited fines for breaking electoral law under new proposals to protect UK elections and referendums from “dirty money and dodgy data misuse”.
A parliamentary inquiry into how to safeguard the UK’s democratic processes from abuse advocates abolishing the £20,000 cap on fines for breaking spending laws, a penalty considered so minor that some donors are believed to dismiss it as “just the cost of doing business”.
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