British Groups: American Groups and Services Critics

british groups: Many of the donors have also given significant sums of money to a series of like-minded American groups which, like the British organisations, promote a free market agenda of low tax, lightly regulated business and privatisation of public services, according to The Guardian. Critics allege that the British groups, which include the Institute of Economic Affairs, Policy Exchange and the Adam Smith Institute, have not been fully transparent about who funds them. The donations have been given to four British thinktanks that have been vocal in the debate about Brexit and the shape of the UK's future trade with the EU, and an organisation that claims to be an independent grassroots campaign representing ordinary British taxpayers. Although some donations are made public, the groups have a general policy of not disclosing their donors, saying they respect their supporters' right to privacy unless the backers wish otherwise. The most recent available year for these filings is 2017. The US donors who gave generously to rightwing UK groups Read more The Guardian has compiled a partial list of American donors to the British groups since 2014 by analysing thousands of pages of US tax filings that have been published, and other public declarations. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.