Inquiry hits out at Smith Institute trustees

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector Online, 18 July 2008

A Charity Commission inquiry into think tank the Smith Institute has criticised the trustees for not doing enough to protect the charity from claims that it was party political.

The regulator's inquiry, which took nearly a year and a half to complete, was prompted by allegations that the charity was too close to the Labour Party, particularly Gordon Brown, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Concerns were raised that the institute employed Brown's former adviser, Ed Balls, shortly...

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