Shadow chancellor calls on ministers to fulfil pledge on money laundering

Introduce promised register for foreign owners of UK properties now, says Anneliese Dodds

The shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, is calling for the government to introduce a long-promised register of foreign owners of UK properties, to prevent criminals using homes as “dodgy bank accounts”.

Reports of suspected money laundering have more than doubled since David Cameron used a speech in Singapore in 2015 to pledge that there would be “no place for dirty money in Britain”.

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