6/ Michael Prescott is an old friend of Robbie Gibb & was on the panel to choose the head of Ofcom when Boris Johnson was PM.

Gibb tried to swing it for a Tory apparatchik but was overruled by (of all people) Nadine Dorries, who preferred another.
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Did like the way Curtis immediately cut in when the spectacular landslide was inevitably mentioned.

There’s a total of £49,255,200 changing hands in this network, although since Labour Together gives & receives donations, this double counts. So taking net for Labour Together there’s £47,631,589.

Network doesn’t necessarily identify most significant individual donors, because you could give a very large donation to Labour Together, but no other org/person in the network, and not feature. But imo is a good way of identifying networks of donors & politicians/political orgs.

Then I stripped away the network so it includes only peoples or orgs that have given or received a donation to/from two people or orgs in the network which have also given or received a donation to/from two people or orgs (this is called K-Core Decomposition).

This network was produced by identifying any ‘regulated entity’ Labour Together has donated to, all of Labour Together’s donors, as well as any other ‘regulated entity’ they have donated to, summing the repeat donations.

And it will