Owen Smith: British Government deliberately excluding DUP donation from publication

The British Government’s failure to backdate the naming of political donors in Northern Ireland "stinks" of a deliberate bid to mask a huge Brexit-backing donation to the DUP, Labour has claimed.

The British Government’s failure to backdate the naming of political donors in Northern Ireland "stinks" of a deliberate bid to mask a huge Brexit-backing donation to the DUP, Labour has claimed.

Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith alleged the decision to publish donations from 2017 onward, rather than exercising the power to backdate to 2014, meant the £435,000 (€492,000) donation to the DUP during the 2016 referendum campaign would not be covered by the law change.