Hello, welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolst.

This week, we're looking under the bonnet of British politics and shining a light into the dark

corners of our Westminster's finances operate, and seeing if the endless pledges to close loopholes

and tighten regulations after every scandal have actually led to a crackdown

on illegal lobbying and undue influence on democracy, whether the UK remains vulnerable to

elicit wealth, cronyism and financial corruption, despite Kirstama's pledge to clean up politics

if you got into office. With me to discuss all that I'm delighted to have on the panel,

Lloyd Hatton, the Labour MP for South Dorset,

as well as Sue Hawley, Executive Director at Spotlight on Corruption, Daniel Bruce, Transparency

International UK's Chief Executive, and the investigative journalist Peter Gagan, author of the Democracy for Sale website.

So, Lloyd, I'm going to start with you.

This has been something of a...

Lots of governments have talked about, I think, after his first victory in 97, Tony Blair

said his party must appear.

Witer than white and purer than pure than pure.

David Cameron promised to tackle the far too cozy relationship between politics, government,

business and money.

But repeated attempts at reform have not really gone

far enough, as we'll discuss later. Kit Starmer said things had to change because trust in politics

was now so degraded. So, you know, in that first year in government, have they done enough really

to start to tackle that? Well, I think that's a really important place to start, which is that

trust in politics is at an all-time

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