Westminster Watch — Plain-English Tracker of UK MPs' Money and Standards
An AI-powered tracker that follows every UK MP's declared donations, outside income, and parliamentary standards investigations, then explains new filings in 100-word plain English with links back to source documents.
civically engaged UK voters who want to follow political money without reading 80-page register PDFs
- Push alerts when a watched MP files a new donation or interest, with a one-paragraph plain-English summary
- Personalized watchlist of MPs and parties with a focused feed you can scan in 60 seconds
- Searchable archive of every standards investigation since 2010 with outcome tags (cleared, suspended, resigned)
- Side-by-side donor-network comparison between parties to spot repeat givers across factions
The Farage donation and standards inquiries, plus ongoing stories about Reform and Jenrick donations, show public appetite for political-finance stories; voters have no single tool to follow the underlying paperwork.
Multiple existing trackers (Milton Project covers all 653 MPs and 196 funders; MPFolio, MPData, TheyWorkForYou interests tab, Tortoise Westminster Accounts) confirm a real audience, but interest is news-cycle driven around scandals like Farage/Reform donations rather than steady demand.The Milton Project ↗MPFolio — Search MPs' Declared Interests | UK Register Tracker ↗
Market is already crowded: Milton Project (free, non-profit, full register), MPFolio (fortnightly change history), MPData (per-party breakdowns), TheyWorkForYou (interests tab on every MP page), plus Tortoise/Sky News Westminster Accounts backed by major newsrooms — a new entrant must clearly out-explain all of these.MPs Donations and Support for MP Activities - Register of Members' Financial Interests ↗The Westminster Accounts - Tortoise ↗TheyWorkForYou - Registers of Interest ↗
All major incumbents (Milton Project, MPFolio, MPData, Westminster Accounts) are free; Milton explicitly states 'No ads. No paywalls' and runs on Ko-fi donations, and UK political newsletters (BBC, Politics.co.uk) are also free, so willingness to pay for a plain-English wrapper is very weak.The Milton Project ↗Subscribe to Politics@Lunch - Politics.co.uk ↗Sky News and Tortoise create data project mapping the funding of British politics ↗
Political-finance scandals recur in every UK election cycle, giving the tool long-term relevance
Data is openly accessible via the UK Parliament Members API (Milton Project already syncs directly to it) and AI summarisation in plain English is straightforward; the build is technically easy but differentiation against existing incumbents is the real challenge.The Milton Project ↗