The public needs to see who we are and better understand what we do. A statutory register of all lobbyists would give the public the chance to find out for themselves and let us and our activities be judged and scrutinised. With confidence in politics at such a low ebb, it would be at least a start.

Leftwing activists have launched a new website which they claim exposes "secret" donations to Conservative MPs, the latest salvo in a war of words ove...

Donations to political parties plummeted by almost £1m in the second quarter of 2012, the same period as the cash-for-access scandal, according to fi...

Scotland Yard are to open their investigation into the 'cash for access' scandal that saw Conservative Party officials offer meetings with senior poli...

Disgraced former Tory co-treasurer Peter Cruddas was the biggest donor to the Conservative party in the first three months of this year, according to ...

A wealthy Tory donor flew his private jet out of British airspace at night in order to avoid paying tax, according to a lobbyist caught up in the cash...

Privileged access of grand donors to political parties to leading members of the government, and subsequent, frequent malpractice, is a constant topic...

Britain's 90th richest man, and eponymous founder of the Peter Cruddas Foundation, dedicated to the "development of... lasting qualities of good citiz...

Labour has raced into a double digit opinion poll lead as the Tories deal with fall-out from an unpopular Budget and the cash-for-access controversy, ...

At a time when our country faces some very difficult decisions about what we should do about public finances, hardly anyone trusts those who are leading the way ahead.

The Commons was at its rowdiest when the cash-for-access row engulfing the Tory party forced Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude to come to the cham...

David Cameron has published a full list of those "significant" Tory party donors who have dined in Downing Street, some of whom had meals in his priva...