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Follow the money – up to a point…
Sky News did well to investigate MPs’ links with a firm offering access to government insiders – for a fee. But it’s been less adept at unravelling the significance of their links to a host of health privateers, says SOLOMON HUGHES

SKY NEWS announced it was “following the money” with in-depth reporting of the finance flowing around our MPs. It was a good start, but for all the graphs and databases, it kept following the money half way, then stopping.
To take one small example, Public Policy Projects calls itself “an independent policy institute committed to global public policy reform.”
But it isn’t independent: Public Policy Projects is funded by corporations, using the money to hire Tory MPs to help them influence government policy and public procurement.
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