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Matthew Hancock, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, accepted a pounds 4,000 donation from the chair of the Institute of Economic Affairs three months before announcing the anti-lobbying clause.
The Cabinet Office referred to the IEA's research on 'sock puppets' in the first line of the statement it made announcing the new policy.
Public records show that on 16 November Hancock accepted pounds 4,000 from Neil Record, who became chair of the charitable think tank last March, and that he has received pounds 22,000 from him since 2010.
Record,...