Lib Dems push for ban on MPs taking money from X, citing Maga threat
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#759HP)
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The Liberal Democrats are pushing for a ban on MPs accepting payments from X as part of a proposed wider crackdown on what Ed Davey will call a serious threat" to UK democracy from Donald Trump's US and other countries.
Announcing the plan on Tuesday, the Lib Dem leader renewed his attacks on Reform UK - a series of whose MPs have taken money from X - calling it a franchise of Maga politics" rather than a British political entity.
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