Stella Creasy

As a democratic as well as socialist movement, Labour cannot stand by as our democracy disintegrates under these pressures.

I think the public should be worried full stop.

This bill introduces a Diet Coke version of refugee status, the core protection visa, which will require refugees to be retested every 2.5 years, potentially for 20 years.

Too often such groups have been blamed for why previous attempts at donation laws have broken down, including the 2007 Hayden Philips review.

This Tuesday, MPs can show they have both a will and a way to protect our politics from the perception as well as the reality of impropriety.

Next Tuesday, the representation of the people bill returns to the Commons.

My amendment to limit all single donations in a calendar year to £100,000 – a huge sum itself to most – would ensure no one can evade a cap wherever they are based.

Whether a million-pound individual donation from a private benefactor comes from overseas or from a UK-based billionaire, the public understand the risk remains broadly the same: that political outcomes are being sold to the highest bidder…

As a democrat, and as a socialist, I don’t think it's right to use this process and especially negative SIs to avoid parliamentary scrutiny and debate, because all laws benefit from good scrutiny.