Stella Creasy
Labour MP who tabled a since-withdrawn £500,000 donation-cap amendment.
On 2 September, Labour MP Stella Creasy withdrew her proposed £500,000 cap on political donations after a minister promised a mega-donor taskforce.
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Why did Stella Creasy withdraw her own donation-cap amendment?
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Stella Creasy is a Labour MP whose parliamentary work includes intervention in electoral-finance rules. Her proposed £500,000 ceiling on political donations placed her directly in the debate over how large gifts should be regulated.
A member of Parliament can table amendments during a bill's passage, then press them to a vote, alter them or withdraw them. Creasy's donation-cap amendment shows her role in using that process to test a specific limit on political funding.
Her relevance in this area rests on that legislative intervention rather than on the later fate of one bill. The episode provides a clear reference point for readers assessing her position on limits for major political donors.
Creasy withdraws donation cap
On 2 September, Stella Creasy withdrew her proposed £500,000 ceiling on individual political donations during Report stage of the Representation of the People Bill. Her decision followed Florence Eshalomi's promise of a cross-government taskforce on mega-donors.
For Creasy, the withdrawal traded an immediate statutory limit for a future government process. No published terms of reference accompanied the taskforce promise on 2 September, and the Bill proceeded without a surviving cap on the value of a single gift.
Why did Stella Creasy withdraw her donation-cap amendment?
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