Transparency International UK
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Challenging corruption, strengthening integrity, and fighting for a fair society based on the rule of law. @anticorruption UK chapter
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📢Today, alongside APPG on Fair Business Banking, we're launching our new Economic Crime Manifesto!
🧭This landmark document is a map & compass for any future government looking to bear down on economic crime and tackle the UK's dirty money problem.
Read more here👇👇👇economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
🚨 An exciting day in the anti-corruption world!
We welcome the launch of the new #EconomicCrime Manifesto.
✅ Over the next week, we'll be explaining how we think key recommendations would make a big difference if implemented by the next UK Govt
#UKPolitics #AntiCorruption
Vaping firms are funding a new pressure group of MPs attempting to water down plans to regulate the industry amid concerns about its impact on children's health.
My investigation for i newspaper here ⬇️ and a thread 🧵inews.co.uk/news/mps-pro-v…
🗣️“Parties should scrupulously avoid the perception that they’re offering privileged political access in return for cash.”
Following an @opendemocracy investigation Steve Goodrich spoke to the The Guardian about big money and access in politics.
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
🗣️ 'MPs should not let well-resourced lobby groups disproportionately affect their judgement on policies'
@rosewhiffen spoke to i newspaper about lobbying transparency and the need for a comprehensive register.
Read @alexaphillips full investigation ⤵️
inews.co.uk/news/mps-pro-v…
🚨📰🎞️🧵 1/3 NEW REPORT!
Today we release a new report with Tax Justice UK reviewing how Britain’s Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories have fared in setting up public registers of beneficial ownership.
Progress is “painfully slow”: Rachael Henry
ukanticorruptioncoalition.org/work/beneficia…
Our latest report warns that the #UnitedStates is ignoring potentially dangerous #corruption risks around opaque defence contract payments that threaten to undermine US and international security.
More here ➡️ ti-defence.org/blissfully-bli…
Last night’s Future Leaders in Illicit Finance Forum (FLIFF) masterclass was a great success! Rachel Davies Teka, Director of Transparency International UK, and Kathryn Westmore, CFCS Senior Research Fellow, gave invaluable insights to future illicit finance fighters.
🗣️ “It is clear that those determined to avoid scrutiny can circumvent regulations placed on APPGs and operate outside parliamentary oversight altogether.”
Rose Whiffen responds to investigation into consultancy that has re-branded cross-party bodies.
thetimes.co.uk/article/cracks…
📢 NEW RESEARCH: Our latest report, Blissfully Blind, pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of defence contract offsets and their #corruption risks.
Read the full report here: ti-defence.org/publications/b…
Thanks to the Byline Times for picking up our story about disappearing APPGs 💥
Includes quotes from our Policy & Advocacy Manager Julia Cushion and our friends Unlock Democracy and Transparency International UK 👇🏼
The team Transparency International UK sends sincere condolences to the family, colleagues and friends of Gretta Fenner.
Her death is a terrible personal tragedy that also takes away one the leading lights of the #AntiCorruption community.
💼📒 JOIN US 📒💼
We're recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager to join our international programmes TI Defence&Security and TI Global Health.
Find out more and apply below ⤵️
transparency.org.uk/careers/Monito…
🗣️ 'It is now increasingly clear that the second chamber is being brought into disrepute, in large part due to political patronage.'
Daniel Bruce spoke to the The Mirror about our new research on the House of Lords and the need for urgent reform.