NEW and tougher rules to drive the “corrupting influence of dark money and wealth donors” on Britain’s politics was demanded by the Scottish Greens today. 

The British Parliament’s committee on standards in public life recommended back in 2011 that a £10,000 a year cap on individual donations be enforced and it subsequently called for a series of further reforms to increase transparency.

But more than a decade later, the then Boris Johnson-led Tory party still garnered more than a quarter of all its donations from just 10 wealthy backers.