Ten Tory politicians helped firms to secure £1.6bn in PPE contracts, leaks reveal.
The Cabinet Office has been blocking my #FOI for emails between Gove and his personal donor David Meller, who received £164m in non-compete contracts, since March.
This leak came after The Department for Health and Social Care have been refusing requests from @georgegrylls, me and countless others for a copy of this list since at least December last year.
My appeal is currently awaiting determination by @ICOnews, whose investigation will hopefully ensure that these emails are disclosed. The Cabinet Office has also refused my request for all correspondence around the handling of the request.
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For some non-Covid news, and as a bit of recent political history, I’ve been released more than 100 pages of internal press office communications relating to the Home Office’s fried chicken box saga.
You may remember back in heady 2019 that there was an uproar after the government provided takeaway boxes with anti-knife crime messages to chicken shops around the country.
The campaign faced an immediate backlash, with critics questioning why fried chicken shops — stereotypically associated with young black communities — were being targeted by the Home Office for this campaign against knife crime.