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News - Professional Fundraising: "Labour party to consider joining FSB

Self-regulation
The Labour Party said it would consider joining the Fundraising Standards Board yesterday, as the scheme was
launched to the public.

A spokesman for the party, which has been dogged lately by questions over its fundraising in the cash for honours scandal, said it had not ruled out joining the self-regulatory scheme.

“It’s certainly something that we’re going to look into,” he said. “The party will decide whether or not the Fundraising Standards Board is more appropriate to charities rather than to the Labour Party. We just have to determine whether or not it is appropriate for us to be a member, or whether or not the Electoral Commission already fills that roll.”"