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‘Hypocrite’ Tory accepted £22k from lobby groups
THE Tory MP responsible for banning charities from using public funds to influence government policy accepted £22,000 from free marketeers that lobbied for the new rules.
Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock, who spearheaded the move, was accused of “gross hypocrisy” by Greenpeace yesterday after it unearthed the donations.
Mr Hancock accepted a series of donations from City currency manager and Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) chairman Neil Record over the last five years, the charity found.
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