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So why do so many public contracts end up with friends of Dominic Cummings?

@GoodLawProject is judicially reviewing the grant of a lucrative, backdated, public affairs contract, granted on a handshake, with no competition, to old mates of his. crowdjustice.com/case/a-river-t…
You can read @openDemocracy's story of this latest Cummings boondoggle here. opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Wanna know how Cummings passes lucrative public contracts to his mates - without competition? Here's @david_conn and @PeterKGeoghegan in the Guardian. theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
We at @GoodLawProject have instructed @ris_law and Jason Coppel QC leading Patrick Halliday both of @11kbw on our judicial review claim against @michaelgove.

You can read our letter before claim here. crowdjustice.com/case/a-river-t…
We will need your help to hold the PM's organ grinder to account. We will issue JR proceedings later today. And we will email them to all those who contribute to the effort to return our country to what it was before these people got their hands on it. crowdjustice.com/case/a-river-t…
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Jo Maugham QC
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Extraordinary gas-lighting from Priti Patel. THREAD.

Minimum wage enforcement is the responsibility of BEIS which it contracts to HMRC. If there are racism fears, they are her Government's. Image
We have all known about this stuff for years. Here is @sarahoconnor_'s 2018 piece.
BEIS has refused to act on modern slavery. On 18 October 2018, at their request, I briefed senior BEIS officials about it (outside the garment industry) in person, and sent them documents which they ignored.
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You can read here the exchange of correspondence between @GoodLawProject and lawyers acting for @MattHancock in relation to Pestfix and Clandeboye. Some startling revelations... THREAD goodlawproject.org/news/the-ppe-f…
First, the Government has now spent £5.5bn on PPE.
Second, despite receiving offers from 16,000 suppliers, the Government chose a confectionary wholesaler, a supplier of pest control services and a family investment fund owned in a tax haven to receive some of the biggest contracts.
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We are already pursuing a
Government over the £108m PPE contracts it said it entered into with a chocolatier and a supplier of pigeon netting.

I know there's only so much of this weirdness you can take but here are two more.

First Aventis Solutions Limited.
It's an employment agency with net assets of £322.
You may think it is not the most obvious place from which to purchase £18.5m worth of facemasks (for which contract it was apparently the only bidder). This Government disagrees. ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO…
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