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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: new Covid19 contract lands today - £14.4m for PPE back with company CH & L. The director is Hon Frances Stanley, friend of Matt Hancock, whose husband donated £5,000 directly to the Health Secretary.
find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002630-…
The Contract, for supply of PPE for Healthcare Workers was issued on the 30 April 2020, so has taken 285 days to be published. Stanley was reported in 2016 as a Newmarket Racecourses committee and at a race with the MP for West Suffolk.
skysports.com/racing/news/12…
Frances’ husband Peter gave £5,000 in 2019 directly to the Health Secretary as a donation.
This contract was legal, and the donation above board, so the fault does not lie with the company. The Stanleys did nothing legally wrong.

Though a donor profiting from a govt contract in a pandemic that was to kill 100,000 is an ethical debate in itself…

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16 men: a team of 11 players, 5 managers.

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