The UK is set to lose £31bn in tax revenue while the illicit finance summit is delayed yet again. Our APPG members @steffanaquarone.bsky.social and Lloyd Hatton MP have warned that dirty money has real consequences for public services and national security. taxjustice.uk/blog/illicit...

New analysis from Transparency International UK shows an estimated £2.2bn of suspected illicit wealth has been funnelled into new-build property in Britain since 2016. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

Today the APPG held its 2026 AGM, attended by MPs and peers from Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Independent benches. Tackling corruption and dirty money is not a party political issue, and our members are united across party lines in taking it on.

This week is Labour Party Conference. Our Chair, @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Brickell MP, writes for @labourlist.bsky.social on the urgent need to tackle the growing influence of big money in British politics 👇

'Britain cannot let billionaire donors buy our democracy' - LabourList

Foreign interference and big money distorting our democracy can only be solved through constructive collaboration.

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Peers from across the Lords used the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill to say the same thing: the Bill leaves too much open or unaddressed, and the stakes are too high for it to do so 👇

The APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax welcomes the Government's new Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Strategy. There is real ambition here, including £550 million of investment over 3 years and 500 new officers across law enforcement and justice 👇

Two crypto billionaires handed a political party £72 million this weekend. That's more than every party in Britain received in donations across the whole of last year. Today peers begin Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill. The APPG are backing amendments to secure our democracy.

A strong set of contributions from MPs across the House during the Representation of the People Bill debate last week From tackling political donations routed through crypto, to strengthening “Know Your Donor” rules and regulating campaign spending - see some of the highlights below 👇

Member and former APPG Chair Joe Powell MP writes on this week's high street announcements - including new local powers over what opens, longer closure orders, and a permanent successor to Operation Machinize. labourlist.org/2026/08/a-re...

'A renaissance of our high streets is in reach' - LabourList

The condition of Britain’s High Streets has become a stark symbol of economic decline and state failure. Labour are changing that.

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✅ 𝑨𝑷𝑷𝑮 𝑾𝑰𝑵 The Government has announced new powers for councils to take back control of the high street - measures the APPG has been calling for. 1. New vape shops will now need planning permission, closing the loophole that let them open unchecked 👇

If you've got money, getting politicians to listen is often far easier than if you've just got a vote. That has to change. An independent review has backed reforms to drag lobbying out of the shadows. No more hidden meetings. No more special treatment. No more backroom deals.

A hostile foreign state cannot legally donate to a British political party. But it can give money to a British citizen, who then donates it instead. On paper it's a British donation. In reality, it's foreign money entering our politics through a middleman 👇

If your bank took a large payment without checking whether it came from a high-risk country, prominent politician or the proceeds of crime, it would be breaking the law. Political parties? Not so much... 👇

🚨🧵 1/3 The APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax supports the important work that the independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards does in overseeing the rules for all parliamentarians. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Standards watchdog set to interview Farage over £5m gift

The Reform UK leader is facing scrutiny over money from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne and his links with George Cottrell

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It’s time to stop dodgy donors. I welcome the Government’s decision to accept all the recommendations from the Rycroft Review. Through my amendments, I will work with the Government to strengthen the Representation of the People Bill. Let’s get dirty money out of our politics.

Dirty money has had a free run at British politics for too long. But today, that's started to change. The Gvt has adopted the Rycroft Review in full: caps on overseas donations, profit-based tests for company donors, and stronger checks on the source of political money. This is genuine progress.

You've seen them on your high street. The vape shop with no customers. The barber's that's empty every time you walk past. The car wash doing a roaring trade in the rain. How do they survive? In a Westminster Hall debate last week, MP after MP asked exactly that.

📅 Today was due to be the UK's Countering Illicit Finance Summit. The Summit may have been delayed, but the threats posed by dirty money, money laundering and economic crime have not been. The next six months should be used to build an even stronger event.

💷 It's All 'Bout the Money - who has too much of it, where it hides, and how it buys influence... ✉️ Read our latest newsletter here: mailchi.mp/fpc/june-new...

🚨 🧵 1/6 NEW: Research from @transparencyuk.bsky.social finds that almost 1 in 6 members of the House of Lords holds a political advisory role in addition to their duties in parliament. www.transparency.org.uk/news/house-l...

The House of Lords has become a lobbying network for hire

Almost one in six peers holds a political advisory role that presents a significant lobbying risk

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The Illicit Finance Summit is coming. The Government must put it high on the political agenda, and set a date urgently. Here's what APPG members had to say 👇 @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @joepowell.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @rebeccalongbailey.com

Britain's high streets are under threat from organised crime. Across the country, legitimate businesses are being undercut by criminal operators using cash-intensive businesses to launder dirty money. @philbrickellmp.bsky.social set out the scale of the challenge and called for tougher action 👇

Fraud now accounts for more than 40% of all recorded crime. Yet too often economic crime is treated as a victimless offence. It isn’t. Last week, members of the APPG visited the City of London Police to hear about the challenges facing those on the frontline of tackling fraud and corruption.

🤠 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 APPG member Baroness Hayter has brought forward a Bill that tries to deal with something most of us already suspect: too much of how government is influenced happens out of sight 👇

Baroness Hodge and Minister Jake Richards arrive in Guernsey today. The timing couldn't be more relevant; last week @thefinancelab.bsky.social released a shocking report report which revealed £393bn in dirty money flows annually through the UK and Crown Dependencies 👇 www.ft.com/content/7b35...

UK warns it could take action over crown dependencies’ lack of transparency

Government in fresh bid to persuade likes of Guernsey as well as overseas territories to go further in tackling illicit finance

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👍 1/3 We fully support this action from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to clamp down on Russian illicit finance and crypto networks. www.gov.uk/government/n...

UK cracks down on backdoor Russian sanctions evasion with tough new measures

Crypto and illicit finance networks exploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions are being targeted as the government ramps up pressure on Putin’s war machine to support Ukraine.

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Have a read of my piece on the more than £300bn of illicit funds flowing through the UK each year and what we can do to tackle it 👇🏻

'Labour must show Britain is no longer open for dirty money' - LabourList

On dirty money, people want fairness. They want accountability. And they want to know that the rules are enforced.

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🚨 🧵 1/4 Alarming new report from our friends at Finance Innovation Lab, which finds that dirty money worth the equivalent of over 10% of our GDP flows through Britain every year. This includes illicit money linked to money laundering, corruption, financial crime, illegal trade and tax dodging.

Jesse Griffiths@jesselgriffiths.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new report is (we think) 1st attempt to estimate scale of illicit financial flows thru the UK - £325bn p.a. www.theguardian.com/business/202... @suehawley.bsky.social @alexcobham.bsky.social @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social @faizashaheen.bsky.social @duncanhames.bsky.social @jemm-s.bsky.social

📺WATCH: Our former Chair @joepowell.bsky.social welcoming the Government's £30m crackdown on the organised crime destroying our High Streets. This is a real step forward - but to win back the beating heart of our communities, we urge the Govt to go even further 👇

🆕 👏 We're sorry to be losing @rachelblakemp.bsky.social as a Co-Chair of the APPG - but delighted at the reason - her appointment as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.