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Emily Maitliss grilling Sarah Wollaston (LD) about gender self-id. Good!

a 100K donation last month from a pharmaceutical company that produces puberty blocking drugs.

Which company is that? It's not obvious from the tweet linked to.

OK, I found the donations page. The Lib Dems are the only party in recent years to have received regular large donations from a pharmaceutical company. Follow the money?

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From this company, which produces decapeptyl (triptorelin) which is a puberty blocking drug:
www.ferring.com/en/products/reproductive-medicine-maternal-health/

Excellent research OldCrone

After I did all my own research I went to this thread and saw that there was another tweet by Jean that other people seemed to be referring to, where she had already done this bit of research. I had only seen the tweet about Spire Healthcare, which I don't think is significant (they are general private healthcare providers).

twitter.com/jeanhatchet/status/1202901925777346561?s=21

This discussion seems to be spread across several threads. Maybe we need a new thread about Lib Dem funding and its influence on policy.

Wow. More than £1,000,000 in five years. Could this explain why Swinson et al have to keep saying TWAW every time they're interviewed?

There's a story here Private Eye or Janice Turner.

Sorry, real life called OldCrone. Here's the screenshot but I see you've found it already.

The Lib Dems are the only party in recent years to have received regular large donations from a pharmaceutical company. Follow the money?

Indeed.