We need a public register of the overseas or offshore ownership of UK property. With transparency and accuracy, we can then follow the money, limit tax avoidance and prevent shady individuals from abusing the UK property market. It's been promised many times. We now know that 35 current or former heads of state have exploited secrecy to avoid paying fair taxes, to hide their wealth from the population, or to launder money they have stolen from their own people into Britain and elsewhere. We’ve also learned that the Conservative party has received millions of pounds in donations from oligarchs in foreign jurisdictions, who used their wealth to gain access to and influence over our government leaders here in Britain.