“Retrospective” is doing some very heavy lifting here. If the proposed change was known about months before the donations were made, this looks rather less like changing the rules after the event and rather more like somebody gambling that the rules wouldn’t change quickly enough.
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Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.
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Tice says government trying to 'retrospectively change rules' as Reform receives £72m in donations
Reform UK announced two £36m donations this weekend, as a bill that could change the rules passes through Parliament. It's being debated again in the Lords later.
