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The Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge has called for greater transparency over political donations after Reform received £72m from two crypto billionaires. It comes as the House of Lords is set to debate a bill today that could cap donations from British citizens living abroad. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, it's absolutely right that this is scrutinised fully, and as I say, what we want to see is maximum
00:04transparency.
00:06I don't know the full details of these individuals and where they've lived and so on.
00:10Obviously, that has to comply with the rules as they are.
00:12The issue with the Channel 4 documentary and the revelations which led to those two senior advisors being suspended by
00:18reform,
00:19which is obviously a major story, was the fact that they appear to have been seeking donations from people who
00:25were actually 100% foreign-based,
00:27and that is illegal. Obviously, that's an allegation. The police are looking into it.
00:31So there are serious questions about reforms, finances, notwithstanding this big donation.
00:35As far as we're concerned as a party, we don't support an arbitrage cap, but we do want to see
00:39much more transparency.
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