Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell says the government will be looking at "bringing in new legislation" to strengthen rules on political donations following reports that billionaire Elon Musk is to make a large donation to Reform UK. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00First of all, under UK law as it is, foreigners cannot make large or other donations to UK-based
00:07political parties. That is against the law in this country. But we are looking at, and
00:13we will be looking at, bringing in some new legislation at some point. It won't be immediate
00:18at some point, to look at donations and all the other elements that we need to protect
00:25and secure up to keep our democracy safe and robust and keep it, you know, have full
00:33integrity in it. So donations will be something we'll be looking at. It's in our manifesto
00:38that we'll look at party political donations. We've also got a number of other measures
00:44that will require legislation. For example, we want to bring in votes at 16. So that is
00:49something that in the course of the next whole parliament, you know, we will look at bringing
00:54in some kind of bill to look at these things. But, you know, just to reassure people that
01:01outside foreign donations to UK political parties is prohibited under UK law currently.