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Rightwing thinktank deletes offer of access to ministers for donors

12:04 AM

Adam Smith Institute offered £1,000 donors invites to ‘power lunches and patrons dinners’

One of the UK’s most influential rightwing thinktanks has deleted passages from its website promising access to government ministers in exchange for donations after the Guardian began making inquiries about its funding.

The Adam Smith Institute, a neoliberal thinktank credited with inspiring some of the most controversial privatisations of the Thatcher and Major governments, offered invitations to “power lunches and patrons dinners with influential figures, including politicians, ministers, journalists and academics” to anyone donating £1,000 a year.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2AFXPu1

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