Short Money is the common name given to the annual payment to Opposition parties in the United Kingdom House of Commons to help them with their costs. It is named after Edward Short (now Lord Glenamara), the-then Leader of the House of Commons who first proposed the payments. Cranborne Money is its counterpart in the House of Lords.
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