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Denzil_DC

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4. Baker's now apologized to the House, and May seems to think that's enough.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 08:32 AM
Feb 2018

Some background on Steve Baker:


UK minister under fire for failure to declare links to pro-Brexit think tank

Brexit minister Steve Baker is under fire for not declaring his links to a right-wing, pro-Brexit think tank.

The Eurosceptic Conservative MP has been a director and a trustee of the right-wing Cobden Centre since founding it in 2010 but chose not to declare this in the MPs’ register of interests. He regularly praises the centre’s work in speeches in the Commons.

Baker resigned his position at the Cobden Centre in June before taking up a cabinet post at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) – but the Ferret has learned that financial authorities were not alerted of Baker’s resignation and the Brexit minister is still listed as a director of the Centre.

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Politicians and transparency campaigners have called on Baker to be upfront about his relationships with pro-Brexit lobby groups.

https://theferret.scot/brexit-steve-baker-cobden-centre/


Those other lobby groups include the ultra-hard Brexit-touting European Research Group (co-member with Rees-Mogg) and dubious charity Legatum.

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