Michael Crick reports on amounts spent by the major parties on their campaigns in 1997.
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Rules set out the upper limits on spending on these occasions but creative accounting means that the playing field isn't as level as it should be. Mr Crick heads to the Wirral South by-election.
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16 июл 2018