‘Unhealthy’: Lobbyists could be banned from campaigns

Mr MacSporran said there were “potential risks” in this practice, particularly when people were working for a political party, but also representing clients who stood to benefit from election commitments.He said transparency could lessen the risk “but of course for obvious reasons, I suppose, it never is and that’s something we’re looking at, we’ll look at further”.“It’s very hard to separate your role as a registered or unregistered lobbyist with your active campaigning and then the…



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