Tobacco lobbyist: Here are the parties’ business clubs we are about to join

The Liberal Party said no when the company Philip Morris wanted to pay to the party’s business club. Other business clubs said yes, says the tobacco company’s lobbyist, who rejects criticism of lobbying.

It creates a democratic distortion that in recent years a layer of lobbyists has developed who try to influence political decision-makers.

This was roughly one of the conclusions reached when researchers recently published the long-awaited ‘Power Report 2.0’.