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28 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Scottish lawyers: can anyone help X who has returned from Spain to Glasgow (where their family is) after having attempted suicide? X is being forced to quarantine at a hotel and their family is worried X will attempt suicide again unless they are permitted to quarantine at home.
If you can help please reply and I will DM you the details of an intermediary. Family is not wealthy - and is now poorer by £1,750 - but the intermediary will pay if necessary.
Can you help @StewartMcDonald, please.
Thank you to @AamerAnwar who has offered to help. Twitter can be wonderful sometimes. Thank you everyone.
Also very grateful to @StewartMcDonald who has also offered to help.
The family's local MP has also now stepped in and asked to help.

Easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of MPs, from all parties, became MPs to serve the public.

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30 Mar
Do you remember when Boris Johnson told Parliament: "All the details are on the record" and added "The contracts are there on the record for everybody to see"? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-562819…
Yesterday Government published (yet another) of the contracts that Boris Johnson had claimed didn't exist: a £102.6m contract to Pharmaceuticals Direct Limited: contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/22f31ba…. (We believe there is more to come from Pharmaceuticals Direct Limited - so watch this space).
The contract is for 20m FFP3 facemasks. They have tried to redact the unit price but they haven't done a very good job so you can see we paid a per unit price of £5.13 (and we picked up the shipping all the way from Jinua City). Image
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29 Mar
Confused about Greensill? Tl;dr Civil servants and politicians do favours for wealthy businessmen then get vast fortunes when they leave office.
It's playing out in public - and targeted at Cameron - because of Tory score settling in Treasury. But the FT reported that Rishi Sunak interceded on Cameron's behalf.

And I know of a number of pandemic procurement civil servants who have since taken jobs for suppliers.
It matters because whenever a politician or civil servant is thinking about how to keep sweet someone they hope will give them a lucrative job later they are not thinking about how to protect the public interest now.
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28 Mar
Here's how Jennifer Acuri claims Boris Johnson made his pass at her: he stroked her leg under the table.
Here's Shappi Khorsandi saying he did substantially the same to her.
And here's Charlotte Edwardes claiming he did the same to her "his hand is high up my leg and he has enough inner flesh beneath his fingers to make me sit suddenly upright." Ms Edwardes says the woman on the other side of Johnson suffered the same experience.
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27 Mar
This is troubling. The original reports were unequivocal about the injuries officers suffered. The Chief Superintendent misled the public about the injuries in a way that harmed the exercise of the right to protest. We really should have an explanation. itv.com/news/westcount…
Here's ITV's original report. I'm pretty clear myself that misleading the public is the very opposite of public service.

Will you be investigating, @SuMountstevens?
Imagine the shoe was on the other foot and you had misled a policeman or woman? Very serious inferences would be drawn about your character and conduct, and rightly. Shouldn't we hold the police to at least as high a standard?
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26 Mar
Our constitution, such as it is, is a set of cultural norms of which the civil service is the primary guardian. Politicise it (further) and that function will be damaged.
For example, on Monday I spoke to a leading academic about what I believe to be the use of public money for the political purposes of the Conservative Party including advertising and private polling. We will shortly be launching litigation in this space...
... "Ah," he said, "but is legal intervention useful? Can civil servants not be relied upon to secure the right thing is done?" I said the way to test that apple was to taste it, but his answer reveals what is at stake when Govt pursues the politicisation of the civil service.
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21 Mar
So here's the remarkable sequence of events on Rishi, Cameron and Greensill as recorded by the Financial Times and the Sunday Times.

And what it means.THREAD
Lex Greensill is working at the heart of Cameron's Government in 2014. He is given "bizarre" or "weird" levels of access.
In 2018 Cameron gets a part time job with Greensill and gets share options worth as much as £70m.
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