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BREXIT Party funding must be urgently investigated for “dirty money,” former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday.
In Glasgow, he said that he has asked the Electoral Commission to probe whether the party has sufficient safeguards on its website to prevent foreign donations interfering in British democracy.
Mr Brown added that an investigation was urgent and essential ahead of the European Parliament election this Thursday.
“Democracy is fatally undermined if unexplained, unreported and thus undeclared and perhaps under the counter and underhand campaign finance — from whom and from where we do not know – is being used to influence the very elections that are at the heart of our democratic system,” he said.
The commission has warned that multiple small payments by anonymous donors could be “a cover for dirty money,” he added.
Brexit Party chair and co-founder Richard Tice said he did not know whether the PayPal account allowed the party to receive donations of less than £500 in foreign currencies.
Mr Tice said criticism over the PayPal funding was from “jealous Westminster people who are just aghast at how we can capture the mood of the country.”
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage also said that Mr Brown’s call for an investigation “smacks of jealousy.”