Ms Qaisar-Javed expressed concerns about the challenges posed by social media in modern politics, highlighting how political parties have exploited voter data to undercut electoral finance laws. She cited examples of illegal practices such as Vote Leave's use of football sweepstakes data and the Conservatives' collection of ethnicity and nationality data for targeting voters. She also criticised the Tories' attacks on democracy, including scrapping the Electoral Commission and the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Social media has opened up our democracy, enthused many people and engaged new voters, but the key electoral legislation that we work under is old and needs to be updated.

Ms Brock commended the debate on transparent electoral campaigning and finances, highlighting issues such as social media campaigns, non-party campaigning groups, and the need to future-proof responses against technological advances. She mentioned examples of illegality in political campaigning and called for stronger democratic systems. Ms Brock also referred to recommendations from an all-party parliamentary group's report on electoral campaign transparency.

Ms Anderson expressed concern over the complexity and fragmentation of electoral laws, highlighting their failure to adapt to the modern age. She criticised the Conservative Government for allowing wealthy foreign donors to fund campaigns under archaic laws that permit such activities. Ms Anderson also addressed concerns about the Elections Bill announced by the Government, which she believes weakens donation laws and opens up new loopholes in election finance regulation.

Welcomed the report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life on election finance regulation, highlighting five measures introduced by the Elections Bill but noting they are not robust enough. Emphasised the need for a resilient system against hostile threats and stressed the importance of modernising the Electoral Commission to tackle dark money and dirty data. We have an opportunity to lead the world in regulating election campaign finances due to our strong democratic heritage, but the existing framework needs updating for the digital age.