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Lucas Amin

@lucasam1n

Award-winning investigative reporter. Digging for stories @ Democracy for Sale and climbing rocks for reasons I can't entirely explain.

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REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)

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🚨 ESSENTIAL VIEWING! Fantastic work by Led By Donkeys, Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk, Lucas Amin & Carol Vorderman, revealing the individuals behind the #TuftonStreet think tanks, which, like our billionaire-owned 'news' media, exist solely to protect the interests of the grotesquely wealthy. 🇬🇧

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🚨 Who funds you? Turns out it's Tory donors Britain's incredibly influential right-wing think tanks refuse to declare their donors But we've discovered that seven Conservative donors have pumped £6.85 million into Tufton Street since 2019 Labour’s Liam Byrne MP said “these

🚨 Who funds you? Turns out it's Tory donors

Britain's incredibly influential right-wing think tanks refuse to declare their donors

But we've discovered that seven Conservative donors have pumped £6.85 million into Tufton Street since 2019 

Labour’s <a href="/liambyrnemp/">Liam Byrne MP</a> said “these
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🔴 Labour is now Britain's big money party Labour raised *15 times* more money than Tories in last week Starmer's party took in £4million from just three super rich donors And where there's big money, there's big influence... New by me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-is-no…

🔴 Labour is now Britain's big money party

Labour raised *15 times* more money than Tories in last week

Starmer's party took in £4million from just three super rich donors 

And where there's big money, there's big influence...

New by me 
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-is-no…
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🔴 SCOOP: ‘Toxic’ Trump-linked donors pouring dark money into British politics Secretive US trusts that fund ‘Trump’s think tank’, climate deniers and far right give millions to IEA and other Tory think tanks Raises “serious questions about foreign influence in UK politics” Me

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Worried about the influence of 'toxic' foreign dark money on British politics? Support Democracy for Sale’s crowdfunding campaign so we can clean up the system gofundme.com/f/democracyfor… #GE24

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Friends! Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk & Lucas Amin have been killing it this election! Their latest scoop: how Trump-linked donors are pouring cash into the Tories This dodgy stuff won't end on July 4. But these guys have a plan to clean the system Support them! gofundme.com/f/democracyfor…

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#DemocracyForSale has broken major stories this election exposing financial ties between Tory think tanks, climate deniers & Trump Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk & Lucas Amin are crowdfunding to help break even more stories about dark money You can help them⏬️ gofundme.com/f/democracyfor…

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🔴 NEW 🔴 Labour Urged to Release Cumbria Coal Mine Documents by Ex-Net Zero Tsar The gov. is being taken to court for failing to publish the evidence provided to ministers before they backed the controversial scheme. 📝 Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.uk & Lucas Amin desmog.com/2024/07/24/lab…

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🔴 Why the secrecy over mega-donor Frank Hester’s meetings with Tory ministers? - Hester is accused of making racist and misogynistic comments - His company Phoenix Partnership has been given £400m in public contracts - Hester met Tory ministers But health department has

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Great to see local press in Cumbria reporting on court case Democracy for Sale is taking to force government to release confidential documents about the so-called 'net zero' coal mine approved by Michael Gove Props to Rebecca Henrys for telling the story newsandstar.co.uk/news/24484828.…

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UK was due to introduce a new packaging tax to tackle plastic waste. But the levy was deferred. Why? Because big food brands successfully lobbied Tory government, saving themselves £1.7billion New by Lucas Amin on Democracy for Sale - and today's Observer democracyforsale.substack.com/p/british-food…

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British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal A new scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by the Tories after industry complaints. Lucas Amin and Jon Ungoed-Thomas | The Guardian bit.ly/3YdLedx

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An investigation by The Ferret and the Democracy for Sale newsletter (Lucas Amin) has found Petroineos could earn around £6m from the sale of thousands of free pollution permits it will be given by the UK Government in 2025.

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This story of Tory minister using an official visit to Azerbaijan to promote party donor JCB's business is also in tomorrow's Observer. Scoop from the inimitable Lucas Amin Another day, another Democracy for Sale newsletter story in major outlet 😀 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tory-ministe…

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Tories gave nearly HALF A BILLION pounds to South West Water since 2013. South West Water then gave its shareholders more than £1.5 BILLION in dividends and is one of the worst sewage polluters. WTAF? Read it all below Lucas Amin RiverActionUK open.substack.com/pub/democracyf…

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🚨SCOOP: Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract New on Democracy for Sale by Lucas Amin and me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-wes…