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22 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Happy Friday! Here’s a few of the things we’ve been working on this week... (1/6)🧵⏬
We started the week with a win!

The ICO has now ordered Government to reveal the names of the 47 companies in the PPE VIP lane (yep, the VIP lane they previously said didn’t exist 👀) (2/6)
glplive.org/tzj
We worked with @openDemocracy to reveal that Boris Johnson’s former adviser works for a company that won millions of pounds in Government funding - at the same time it donated £20,000 to the Conservative Party (3/6)
glplive.org/z44
On Wednesday we hosted our first ever Good Law Project Live session - a Q&A with @JolyonMaugham and @gem_abbott. Missed it? You can catch up here (4/6)
We also shared Cathy Gardner’s legal case against Government for discharging patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them for Covid first. 💔(5/6) glplive.org/hv5
Want to stay up to date with our work? Sign up to receive regular email updates ⬇️📨 (6/6)
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20 Oct
NEW: Matt Hancock claimed the Government ‘right from the start’ threw ‘a protective ring around care homes’. This was simply untrue.

We have gained exclusive access to the evidence – and it is horrifying. ⬇️ goodlawproject.org/news/they-let-…
One email from March 2020 shows officials & Dr Jenny Harries, now Head of Test + Trace, discussing the fact that care homes did not want to take people from hospital without a negative test. Instead of listening it appears Government pushed ahead ⬇️
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And an email dated 24th March 2020 revealed that ‘freeing up NHS beds is a government policy’.
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12 Oct
The first major inquiry into how Government handled the Covid crisis has been published today. The findings are damning, revealing a catalogue of failures which led to thousands of needless deaths. THREAD⬇️
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8 Oct
We've had a successful week - here's a few of our highlights ⬇️ (1/6)
🔍We revealed eye-watering profits made by Uniserve, who secured PPE deals via the ‘VIP Lane’ - which Government had previously denied existing (2/6)
glplive.org/fpf
✅The High Court granted our request to have our legal challenge to the so-called ‘Levelling Up Fund’ heard on an expedited basis (3/6)
glplive.org/h05
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25 Aug
💥The huge £4.8bn fund pretends to be the centrepiece of a levelling up agenda – but we think it’s just a way to funnel money into constituencies of political benefit to the Conservative Party... (1/6)
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This week, the High Court granted permission for our legal challenge against this... This decision means the Government will have to defend itself in Court (2/6)
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Of the 14 cases we have issued since the start of 2020, the Court has granted permission in 11 at the first time of asking... (3/6)
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20 Aug
🚨 Looks like the FCO has failed to publish details of any of Dominic Raab's ministerial meetings since June 2020...

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The delay by the Foreign Office in publishing Raab’s meeting schedule is in contradiction to government guidance which requests ‘departmental core transparency data, to be published quarterly.’

And the line on the FCO's own website saying they will publish quarterly? 🧐
It also emerged in June 2021 that Dominic Raab's private mobile phone number had been freely available online for more than a decade.
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The strange tale of Qured, the Government approved Covid testing firm that seems to have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

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