''Big banks and thinktanks''

From The Bureau Investigates

''Thinktanks are often quoted in the media as bastions of impartial, academic research; their reports and findings are relied on to inform and improve public policy. But in the past year at least £1.3m was given by the financial sector to fund the UK’s 18 most powerful thinktanks – raising questions over the sector’s influence on their independence.

The Bureau asked where 18 of the UK’s biggest thinktanks got their money. We learnt that in some cases funds from financial sector donors made up almost a third of a particular thinktank’s income.''

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