Forget meeting millionaires. Reform political party funding, rely less on big donations, and the issue of who does or doesn’t meet up with super-wealthy Russians is immaterial.
In the UK, the spectre of sleaze has once again reared its ugly head, when Shadow Chancellor George Osborne was accused of attempting to solicit a £50,000 donation from Russia’s richest man Oleg Deripaska.
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