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12 Feb, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Whoever "Corporate Travel Management (North) Ltd" is, they've just hit the jackpot!

They seem to be behind both the £1,750 quarantine hotels, and the mandatory £210 Covid home testing kits (for travellers arriving from destinations not on the Red List).
gov.uk/guidance/booki…
The link from the official government webpage takes you to this mid-1990s style gateway page.
…arantinehotelbookings.ctmportal.co.uk
From there, you can head to the CTM-branded "Managed Quarantine" hotel booking page...
quarantinehotels.ctmportal.co.uk

Or alternatively to the CTM-branded "Covid testing package" booking page.
quarantinehotels.ctmportal.co.uk/Quarantine/Hom…

In other words, their fingerprints are all over the whole thing!
Seems "Corporate Travel Management (North) Ltd" used to be called "Redfern Travel Ltd" until 2018.

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/004881…
And Redfern Travel has quite a history of having Government money showered on it by the Tories.

See for example this discussion in Parliament in December 2011.
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-1…
The firm earned itself another explicit mention in Parliament in 2013...
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2013-0…

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Matt Hancock has said...

"People who need hotel quarantine will need to pay £1,750 per individual for the hotel, transport and testing."

Talk about platinum-plating. There's platinum layered on gold layered on silver on that pricing!
theguardian.com/politics/live/…
Normally, when you bulk-buy, you'd expect a discount.

Yet the Tories have managed to block book thousands of hotel rooms in hotels that would otherwise have been empty, and yet still managed to end up paying over the top rates for them.
To put the price into context, 10 nights at the Novotel (one of the closest hotels to Heathrow) starting tonight would cost you £632. The Ibis would be £440, or the Radisson £639.

You'd have to add lunches and dinners, but you would die of caviar overload before hitting £1,750.
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