Last week we hosted a meeting of politicians and campaigners to talk
about two things:

How can we bring MPs who have broken the rules to justice?
How can we fix the broken election expenses system?

Our friendly legal experts had some good news – there are legal options
to pursue MPs who have broken election spending limits even if the
police aren’t already investigating them! The allegations that the
police are already investigating could just be the tip of the iceberg in
this election expenses scandal.

It shouldn’t take a crack team of investigative journalists to keep our
elections fair and protect democracy. One big obstacle in the way of
holding MPs to account is that election expenses aren’t publicly
available. The only way you can access them is by going down to your
local council offices. We are working behind the scenes to change this
in time for the next general election (whenever that may be!) We will be
talking to the Electoral Commission to put pressure on local councils to
make this vital information available online.

With Brexit and Chilcot dominating the news, the election expenses
scandal could drop off the radar. We won’t let that happen.

Best wishes,