Ben Lake

Ben Lake

Plaid Cymru — Ceredigion Preseli

Speaking in the House of Commons on 25 March 2026

Debate

Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics

Contribution

I, too, welcome Sir Philip Rycroft’s work and the Secretary of State’s announcement today. I strongly support the idea of applying the donations cap and the moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to the devolved elections. Will the Secretary of State just clarify, to reassure me, that for those changes to take effect for the upcoming elections, we will not have to have a legislative consent motion from the devolved legislatures before the elections because, as others have mentioned, there is very little time for that to happen?

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