Manchester council’s Labour group have been fined after failing to report more than £100,000 in donations to the Labour Party.The group failed to notify the Electoral Commission of payments totalling £54,000 made to the Manchester Local Campaign Forum, an accounting arm of Labour, in 2018 and 2019.As an unincorporated association the group must inform the UK’s electoral watchdog if it has given more than £25,000 to a political party.It must also share any reportable gifts - or confirm no reportable gifts - they have received the year before, during the calendar year, or the year after receiving the contribution.But the group failed to tell the Electoral Commission that they received no gifts for several months in 2016, all of 2018 and the.
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