Bring WhatsApp out of the dark and make MPs messages part of the lobbying register alastair mccapra Successive lobbying scandals have eaten away at our faith in our politics and elections, all messages whether that be on WhatsApp or by owl-post, should be subject to lobbying rules, writes Alastair McCapra. After a seemingly never-ending string of scandals, lobbying is back on MPs’ agendas with both the government and the opposition proposing measures [...]
The age of politics by WhatsApp has damaged our trust in transparency Alastair McCapra “We all know how it works”, said the then prime minister David Cameron in 2010. “The lunches, the hospitality, the quiet word in your ear, the ex-ministers and ex-advisers for hire, helping big business find the right way to get its way.” What Cameron didn’t know when he gave the speech, which explicitly linked “secret [...]
