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Alex Jacobs

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Director of the Joffe Trust. Illicit finance, economic crime, philanthropy. Scaramouche Sailing Trust too.

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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 26/05/2025
Investigative journalism isn’t fast or easy. It takes time, resources, and persistence. But it makes a difference. The Ferret has spent years exposing corporate misconduct, political influence, and environmental harm. Help us continue: bit.ly/40xhnec
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great job, wonderful team, at the heart of the action
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 18/05/2025
Decisions that shape lives shouldn’t happen in the dark. Investigative journalism brings them into the open. The Ferret is committed to reporting with depth, accuracy, and impact. Support us with a monthly donation: theferret.scot/subscribe
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ICIJ @icij.org · 15/05/2025
From The Luxembourg Times: Luxembourg authorities collected more than €50 million in additional tax revenue immediately following ICIJ's publication of the #PanamaPapers, Finance Minister Gilles Roth said in response to a parliamentary question last week.
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Luxembourg recovered €54m in taxes after Panama Papers publication
Luxembourg’s finance minister has detailed how much revenue tax authorities collected after journalists’ 2016 investigation
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Steve Goodrich @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
International Lawyers Project are hiring an anti-corruption specialist www.internationallawyersproject.org/career-oppor... Deadline EOD Wednesday 28 May 2025 Interviews week of 5 June 2025
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Senior Legal Manager, Governance and Accountability Programme
Careers at International Lawyers Project as Senior Legal Manager, Governance and Accountability Programme
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I see we're back to credulously reporting the "millionaire migration" claims of a company that sells migration services to millionaires. I have contacted the people behind these studies and they wouldn't tell me the underlying numbers. Only HMRC actually knows how many millionaires have moved.
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Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
UK lawyers need to be effective gate keepers against dirty money that comes into the UK. But is the current anti-money laundering framework working to make sure they do? Our latest report showing that despite some promising signs, ambitious reform is needed to move the dial.
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Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Incredible opportunity here to work with the brilliant @aj16.bsky.social at the Joffe Trust, tackling illicit finance (Programme Director). Absolutely essential work in these dangerous times. joffetrust.org/join-our-tea...
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Join our team! - Joffe Trust
Joffe Trust convenes unique cross-sector group to identify how to tackle economic crime better together.
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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If they are to remain credible, the FATF and European institutions need to begin treating the US as a high-risk jurisdiction
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A lot here that applies in the UK too, on tackling Trump by fighting dirty money.
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
How's UK civil society responding to Trumpworld & the rise of the far right? I asked LinkedIn's hive mind & this is what I heard, so far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-uk...
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How is UK Civil Society responding to Trumpworld & the hard right?
Last week I asked how is UK civil society responding to Trumpworld & the hard right? The answers & comments are gold dust. Thank you for all your replies.
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Brilliant deep dive into Bangladeshi politician's multi-$100m's property empire inc 315 UK properties. 'Yunus has described the alleged looting of banks by elites as “highway robbery”, and said the money “has to be brought back”.' @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org on.ft.com/3F02YBW
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The Bangladeshi politician who built a shadowy global property empire
FT investigation: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and his family bought 482 properties overseas costing $295mn. The new government wants some of that money back
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Such important analysis: 35% of voters feel economically insecure & are looking for political alternatives Surely this is the political challenge of our times, to fight populism?
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Kevin Roberts, President of Heritage Foundation, architect of Project2025. 12 Feb 2025: "The woke, international, progressive elite is fundamentally a hate group. They hate the US. They hate democracy .. Christianity .. Judaism .." Jawdropping. x.com/KevinRoberts...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/02/2025
"The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office." from Casey Michel www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Will Donald Trump make money laundering great again?
The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 18/02/2025
.@OliverBullough 's opinion piece urges the U.K. to “step up where the U.S. is stepping back” in fighting corruption, including funding networks like OCCRP that do “indispensable journalistic work"
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The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough
Britain used to solicit money that the US would not touch – but with oligarchs and fraudsters on the rise, it must now uphold the law, says author Oliver Bullough
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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 14/02/2025
⭐ EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to join our small friendly team at @spotlightcorruption.org! We're looking for someone to lead our work on defending UK democracy – pushing for reforms to: 👉 enhance public trust in govt & 👉 prevent foreign interference in UK politics. 📆 Deadline: Sunday 16 March #CharityJob
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Senior policy and campaign lead on defending UK democracy | Spotlight on Corruption | CharityJob
Apply now for Senior policy and campaign lead on defending UK democracy. , £52,016 per year, find a career with meaning today
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just endured every excruciating minute of this. With Trump sitting there, the kid wandering around, Musk gives a crash course in his theory of democracy that would embarrass a semi-literate stoner. These are fools in charge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuT...
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President Trump & Elon Musk in the Oval Office: Full Remarks
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just to keep up with what Musk is saying
Musk tweet to Larry Summers
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Finance Innovation Lab @thefinancelab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📣 Less than a week left to apply to our Director of People and Operations (Maternity Cover) role! If you’re someone who is a caring and collaborative people and operations professional apply now! bit.ly/3DYcrJi
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Director of People and Operations (Maternity Cover)
SummaryThis role is an Executive level role, sharing overall responsibility for the Lab’s impact with the other members of the Exec (CEO, COO, Director of Programmes and Campaigns).The role will be sp...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.
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Daniel Bruce @danieljbruce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Despite repeated promises from the British Virgin Islands to tackle corrosive corporate secrecy its latest proposals look like a smokescreen for continued secrecy. @transparencyuk.bsky.social’s @margotmollat.bsky.social explains… www.transparency.org.uk/news/smokesc... #AntiCorruption #DirtyMoney
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A smokescreen for secrecy
Why the British Virgin Island’s corporate register reform plans fall flat
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In the old days (when I still used twitter), I had a weekly newsletter called Oligarchy, in which I looked at what was happening in the world of financial skulduggery. I took a break to write a book, but it's back this week! Sign up this week if you'd like to get it. www.codastory.com/newsletters/
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Newsletters - Coda Story
Coda’s newsletters are designed to help you uncover the complex ways that today’s pressing issues are interconnected, so you can make sense of the world.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
After Tulip Siddiq's resignation, Emma Reynolds becomes Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Torsten Bell is promoted to joint junior minister at Treasury and DWP.
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Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Tulip Siddiq resigns as City minister. In letter to PM Siddiq said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing as a Treasury minister would be "a distraction from the work of the govt” PM tells her ‘door always open for a return’ news.sky.com/story/pressu...
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Politics latest: Starmer's anti-corruption minister leaves government
City minister Tulip Siddiq has left government after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has faced MPs for the first time since Number 10 guaranteed she would remain c...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
BREAKING: Tulip Siddiq has resigned as a Treasury minister In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Labour MP said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing in her post would be "a distraction from the work of the government"
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Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hurrah! the must-read Oligarchy newsletter with @oliverbullough.bsky.social gh is back ! Sign up here mailchi.mp/codastory.co...
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Announcement: Oligarchy with Oliver Bullough
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Of course the Tulip Siddiq affair involves prime London property owned through secret BVI companies! And the Panama Papers & independent journalists still bringing more secrets to light. www.thetimes.com/article/9d0c...
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PM urged to sack Tulip Siddiq after Bangladesh leader’s rebuke
‘It’s about plain robbery’: Muhammad Yunus calls for an investigation into homes given to the anti-corruption minister and her family by allies of her aunt’s deposed regime
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Fantastic new job at the heart of the UK's fight against dirty money & corruption. @fpcthinktank.bsky.social fpc.org.uk/about/workin...
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Coordinator for the APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax - The Foreign Policy Centre
The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) is looking to recruit a Coordinator for the APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax to join its team.   Location: London Salary: £37.5k – £42.5k, dependent on exper...
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Franz Wild @wildfranz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
NEW: A Guernsey advisor help Assad's uncle manage a property empire worth hundreds of millions in Europe. A window into how the UK enables kleptocrats who've butchered their own people and hidden stolen millions offshore www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...
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‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash…
Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Brilliant investigation into British enablers helping the Assad family with hundreds of millions of pounds of ill gotten loot from Syria.
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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
💥 NEW 💥 Security Minister @danjarvismp.bsky.social announces new Domestic Corruption Unit at today's Economic Crime Congress. This is an important development in the fight against corruption here in the UK. See our full reaction ⤵️ www.transparency.org.uk/economic-cri...
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Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Kamlesh Pattni has been sanctioned by the UK. He was implicated in the Goldenberg scandal which almost bankrupted Kenya and in 2023, @ajiunit.com's #GoldMafia investigation found that he was smuggling gold from Zimbabwe www.gov.uk/government/n... www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/...
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New Anti-Corruption Champion and NCA funding as campaign against corruption steps up
Baroness Margaret Hodge announced as UK's new Anti-Corruption Champion as National Crime Agency receives new funding and sanctions imposed on illicit gold trade
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Jem Mills-Sheehy @jemm-s.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🔹BREAKING🔹 ✨Gov announces Baroness Hodge as new Anti-Corruption Champion✨ We welcome the appointment of a new Champion and look forward to working with Baroness Hodge to turn the UK in the Anti-Corruption Capital of the world. More 👇
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New Anti-Corruption Champion: Baroness Hodge 'uniquely positioned' to drive forward and develop anti-corruption agenda
As the UK marks the International Anti-Corruption Day, Transparency International UK welcomes the Government’s appointment of Baroness Margaret Hodge of Barking as the new Anti-Corruption Champion.
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Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
BREAKING - it's official - Margaret Hodge to be new Anti-Corruption champion. This is very exciting - a strong challenge role and we look forward to working with her on developing a really ambitious Anti-Corruption Strategy. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
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Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Statement in the Commons today by the Government, on tackling corruption at 3:30pm - one to watch this Anti-Corruption Day. We're expecting a few announcements
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!
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Democracy For Sale
A survey into people's attitudes to the health of British politics from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Here's some thoughts from me about how to keep dark money out of British politics, and why it's urgent to do it now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good to see Guardian featuring my latest piece about how Elon Musk's putative $100m donation to Farage shows how broken the regulation of our democracy is- and how we can fix it Piece is here: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m... Now Democracy for Sale's most popular ever post. Do share!
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Essential reading by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the prospect of Musk bankrolling the Reform Party. As Peter has been arguing for years, Britain's electoral laws are decades out of date. That has left our democracy wide open to plutocratic capture. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
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Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Also today, an investigation by the Observer, in partnership with @bcowdock.bsky.social @transparencyuk.bsky.social, reveals Bangladeshi power players accused of corruption have amassed a portfolio of British real estate worth almost £400m – and possibly much more:
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Money trail: questions over deposed Bangladeshi elite’s £400m UK property empire
Associates of former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina have spent millions buying up top-flight property assets in the UK
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fascinating primer on the next Financing for Development Conference, Seville, July 2025 by @mattikohonen.bsky.social shorturl.at/KeBaN
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Setting the global agenda for tax, debt and international aid through 2035
THE FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Exclusive: Lord did not disclose pressure group link while opposing lawfare reform www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/11/25/l...
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Lord did not disclose pressure group link while opposing lawfare reform - Tortoise
A former solicitor-general has argued against libel law reform without making clear all his connections
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Spot on analysis of footdragging in the endless push for transparency in the UK's overseas territories.
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Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
David Lammy on anti-klepto sanctions "I committed to taking on kleptocrats and the dirty money that empowers them when I became Foreign Secretary and these sanctions mark the first step in delivering this ambition. The tide is turning. The golden age of money laundering is over." shorturl.at/XhfQ0
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UK cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions
UK sanctions kleptocrats, firing starting gun on a new Foreign Secretary campaign against dirty money
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Kathryn Westmore @kathrynwestmore.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I have a new report out today! I gathered some of my favourite people to look ahead to the UK’s next FATF mutual evaluation in 2027. Is the UK any better at dealing with money laundering and terrorist financing than 10 years ago? Read on to find out! www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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UK FATF Mutual Evaluation Taskforce: First Meeting Report
At the first meeting of the UK FATF Mutual Evaluation Taskforce, experts discussed how the UK can best prepare for its upcoming FATF evaluation in 2027.
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Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Over the weekend, the Government published its communique on the back of the meeting it had with Overseas Territories. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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UK and Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council 2024: communiqué
The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary joined elected Leaders and Representatives of the UK Overseas Territories for the twelfth Joint Ministerial Council.
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Steve Goodrich @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another OT defying Stephen Doughty's insistence that legitimate interest access is just a selling stone to full public registers.
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Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Great video by David Lammy on his new campaign against corruption and illicit finance: www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl...
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David Lammy on LinkedIn: I said I would take on dirty money when I became Foreign Secretary…
I said I would take on dirty money when I became Foreign Secretary. Today, I am.
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