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31 Jul, 15 tweets, 7 min read
Our #KeepingTheReceipts Week 12 is almost over, and centre stage for much of it yet again is the Home Office, as revelations surrounding detention, policing, and the rights of asylum seekers threaten to further impact the most vulnerable in society:
1. Returning to changes to the Official Secrets Act, on Monday further reports covered the potential 14 year sentences for journalists citing “unauthorised disclosures’, with fears of the UK heading towards becoming an ‘authoritarian police state’
2. The same day, FOI requests uncovered evidence of 52 prisoners in close supervision units being kept in conditions that a UN human rights expert said “may amount to torture”
3. On Tuesday, MPs and campaigners sounded the alarm about new ‘discriminatory’ crime reduction plans, including more frequent stop and search proposals
4. After two solid weeks of fires and mass floods across multiple continents, it emerged that the Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemptions, in attempts to exclude her estate from being bound by green energy proposals
5. In cronyism news, former special advisor Dominic Cummings was reported to have influenced a contract for Vote Leave affiliated firm Hanbury Strategy to conduct political polling with taxpayer money, an award that saw no competitive tendering process.
6. And yet another Conservative donor was found to have been awarded major construction contracts on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, @allthecitizens and @BylineBITE revealed.
7. The Home Office also came under fire on Friday for failing to put in place a system to protect detainees with HIV, in a landmark ruling that found the department breached article 3 of the European convention of human rights.
8. An explosive investigation from @FT blew open an elite Tory donors club, the ‘Advisory Board’, some of whose members gave at least £250,000 to the party, and who occasionally met with Johnson and Sunak to discuss updates “on the political landscape”
9. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was found to have taken £25,000 in donations from a former Russian bank chief Dmitry Leus for ‘campaigning costs”
10. And shockingly the Home Office, in the spotlight once more, was found to have set up a fake website, ‘On The Move’, offering misleading claims with the aim of deterring asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel, without declaring gov affiliation
On top of this week’s roundup of current affairs, @allthecitizens and @receiptkeepers are pleased to announce a new spreadsheet to add to the list, centred around the NHS and further government data-grabs. See Below:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
The news broke last week that the GP data grab had been stalled for a second time, but the fight isn’t over. We’ll be keeping an eye on this and posting updates on our pages as soon as new information comes to light.
theregister.com/2021/07/20/nhs…
Of note though, are claims from Ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who stated that “the vast majority of people are strongly onside” with the initiative, when reports indicate that as many as 20 million people don’t even know what it is.
theregister.com/2021/07/29/whi…
To keep up-to-date with what’s going on in Tory Britain, and for breaking stories, please follow @allthecitizens and @receiptkeepers, and consider subscribing to our substack below for weekly newsletters from the team:

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16 Jul
As we conclude #KeepingTheReceipts week 10, cronyism once more takes centre stage after days of new revelations uncovering VIP contracts, donors/political allies elevated to key positions and the Tories pushing through plans to accelerate #NHS privatisation.

Let’s dive in:
1. On Monday Sue Gray, a key witness who played a major role in granting Greensill Capital formal access to Whitehall, was blocked from giving evidence to the PACAC by the Cabinet Office and Michael Gove
2. The same day, it emerged that Cameron had taken a salary of more than $1m a year for just 25 days work, more than $40,000 per day
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9 Jul
It’s been a huge week, and not just for football fans.

In the last 7 days, drastic legislative changes have been brought forward, the unrelenting cronyism at the heart of government continues to be exposed, and cuts threaten thousands of those most at risk.

Let’s recap:
1: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill was passed with a majority of 100, attacking the freedom to peaceful protest, targeting traveller communities and homeless people, and rejecting statutory minimum sentences for rape.
2: The very next day the Home Office published the equally draconian Nationality and Borders Bill, criminalising asylum seekers who enter the UK “irregularly” and those that aid them. It also includes proposals for removing people to “offshore centres”
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7 Jun
The Citizens - KEEPING THE RECEIPTS:

In the Queen’s Speech on 11th May, the Johnson administration laid out its plans to introduce major legislative alterations to the fabric of our democracy; paving the way for voter ID, judicial review, and scrapping fixed parliamentary terms. Image
Following attacks on the freedom to protest, billions in public funds issued to Conservative donors, and numerous breaches of parliamentary norms, @allthecitizens have started #KeepingTheReceipts, cataloguing the attempts to undermine our democracy:

keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/why-keeping-…
As US activist @Amy_Siskind wrote when undertaking this same task during the Trump years:

‘experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember’

- this is exactly what we’re going to do.
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