BREAKIING: The High Court has ruled Michael Gove broke the law in awarding a contract to his associates at Public First. The Court ruled a reasonable observer would think there was a real risk Public First won the contract because of favouritism.
The decision vindicates what @GoodLawProject has been saying now for a year: that the Government's pandemic procurement favoured friends of the Conservative Party. Full blog here: glplive.org/judgment
We have now two concluded judicial reviews of pandemic procurement. Each established that a Cabinet Minister - respectively, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove - acted unlawfully. We have a slate of approximately a dozen further judicial reviews to come.
Whilst the Government launches multiple deceitful and targeted attacks at us through its friends in the press goodlawproject.org/news/bully-cri… and advances misconceived attacks on us through its lawyers goodlawproject.org/news/professio… we will continue to work to expose its lawbreaking.
Remembering this rather robust statement from Michael Gove's department (theguardian.com/politics/2020/…). I guess it's a bit much to hope an apology might be forthcoming. 
After we established @MattHancock had broken the law, we wrote inviting him to work with us to improve Government procurement rather than wasting public money defending the indefensible. He didn't have the courtesy to respond. We now repeat our invitation. rebrand.ly/letter-glp-mh
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