Last night, 250 Conservative MPs voted to rip up the rules to protect one of their own. This is truly shocking, but it's also not surprising. It might seem Government sleaze is becoming the norm - but we're determined not to let it… THREAD ⬇️ (1/8)
Back in July, we forced Government to admit at least 4 Ministers used private emails for Government business… (2/8)
glplive.org/89g
… we don’t think shady deals and private messages are good enough - so we’re bringing legal action to hold Government to the standards they should be (3/8)
glplive.org/k0z
In August, we were given the green light by the Court to proceed in our Bunzl case - another lobbying scandal, this time involving Lord Feldman, the former Conservative Party Chair (and David Cameron’s BFF) (4/8) glplive.org/t19
We’ve uncovered a deal in which key civil servants were misled. This company, after help from Priti Patel and No.10, was paid £50m over the odds, and a politically connected middleman landed millions. (5/8)
glplive.org/9ea
… and we’ve laid bare the fast track ‘VIP Lanes’ for firms preferred by Ministers to win multi-million pound PPE & Test and Trace contracts (6/8)
glplive.org/ba7
Just this morning, we revealed a Minister had failed to declare what could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest over Covid contracts (7/8)
glplive.org/dev
We don’t think sleaze has any place in our democracy.

In fact, it is a threat to it. Which is why, funded by people across the UK, we will keep fighting to expose it.

If you’d like to support our work, you can do so here (8/8)
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6 Nov
EXCLUSIVE: Former Minister Lord Bethell admits deleting WhatsApp messages
glplive.org/abingdon-tw-06…
Back in July, the Government admitted that some of the now former Health Minister Lord Bethell’s dealings in relation to the controversial £85 million testing contracts to Abingdon Health had been conducted via WhatsApp or text message, and were held only on his private phone.
The Court ordered the Government to hand them over – a simple request, you’d think...
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From corruption, to a Government U-turn to launching a new legal challenge. It’s been a helluva week. Fighting for our democracy is more important than ever - here’s how we’ve done just that in the last 7 days🧵 (1/6)
IMMENSA SCANDAL: on Monday we launched new legal proceedings against the Health Secretary. We think Government has let people down - and endangered lives. You can support the legal action here ⏬ (2/6)
glplive.org/v5s
On Wednesday we won a long-running FOI battle which revealed private hospitals were paid a staggering £1.5 billion during the pandemic. However just 00.08% of the beds were used. (3/6)
glplive.org/rma
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29 Oct
How’s your week been? We’ve had some major developments 🧵 (1/6)
🚦🎉We were given the go ahead by the High Court in our challenge over Ministers’ persistent use of private emails and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal for Government business (2/6)
glplive.org/PrivateEmails--
We stood up for the right of trans people to access the healthcare they need and deserve 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ (3/6)
glplive.org/TransHealth
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27 Oct
🚨 TEST AND WASTE 🚨

Explosive new report condemns the Government’s 'muddled' and 'overstated' Test & Trace system - and finds it has failed to cut infection levels despite its ‘eye-watering’ £37bn funding

THREAD ⬇️ (1/6)
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
Today’s report finds overreliance on consultants has likely cost taxpayers ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’

In April, 2,164 consultants worked on NHS Test & Trace with average pay of '£1,100 per day' 👀

Our report on the consultancy gravy train⬇️ (2/6)
goodlawproject.org/news/deloitte/
🚨Incredibly, only 14% of lateral flow test results have been registered.

Huge waste that has likely generated huge wealth for some.

We revealed the existence of a fast-track 'VIP' lane for testing firms preferred by Ministers ⬇️ (3/6)
goodlawproject.org/update/breakin…
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25 Oct
🚨FOI is broken. 2020 was the worst year on record for UK Government transparency, according to @openDemocracy’s report today 😠

Here's @GoodLawProject’s experience over the past 12 months. [THREAD] ⬇️
opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-…
@openDemocracy [1] Last week, @GoodLawProject successfully forced Government to reveal the names of all 47 companies in the PPE ‘VIP’ lane 🎉

After a *9-month* FOI battle, @ICOnews ordered Government to disclose these firms to us *within 35 days*

More info 👇 goodlawproject.org/news/they-have…
@openDemocracy @ICOnews [2] After a 3-month wait, Government refused to release a bombshell report explaining how the PPE ‘VIP’ lane was controlled, and the associated conflict of interest issues/fraud risks.

They claimed it’s 'not in the public interest' 🙄

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22 Oct
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
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