Stella Creasy: “As a democrat, and as a socialist, I don’t think it's right to use this process and especially negative SIs to avoid…”

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

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.

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…

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.