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Political Parties: Funding

My Lords, surely this question goes beyond loans and even cash for honours. Does the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor agree that it is wrong for any organisation—whether a trade union or any other—to buy political influence through political donations? I remind him that in leading the attack on the Conservative Party in 1993 when I was party chairman, the then deputy leader of the Labour Party, Margaret Beckett, said that, in contrast to the Conservatives, the Labour Party reveals,"““from where we obtain almost every single penny that we receive””.—[Official Report, Commons, 22/6/93; col. 187.]" When did that policy change?