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 👇🏼

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We’ve got lots more in the pipeline about APPGs as a force for good (and not so good…) but first, ICYMI… why did over a third of APPGs disappear? 🧐

There's been a bonfire of the APPGs 🔥 - find out which All Party Parliamentary Groups have gone away, and why ⬇️

Great analysis from mySociety on the drop in the number of APPGs due to new rule changes. Recent reporting by Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack for The Times on how some former APPGs might be morphing into informal 'parliamentary liaison groups' to skirt the new requirements. One to watch 🧐

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