Scandal-hit group pays former Tory aides for advice but cuts cash for ethical causes The new Co-op revelations come in the wake of the scandal surrounding Paul Flowers, above. Photograph: PA The scandal-hit Co-operative Group is cutting funding for ethical causes while paying hundreds of thousands of pounds to former Tory aides for advice, the Observer can reveal. After a series of financial and sex scandals, it has emerged that the board of the Co-operative Group is cutting or terminating donations to charities and organisations, some of which are now facing closure. The organisations include the 130-year-old Co-operative Women's Guild and the Mutuo thinktank, which has been advising the...
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