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27 Nov, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Thread: @Ed_Miliband and I have written to the government's Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding a Minister (@annietrev) appearing to mislead Parliament about the links between Aquind and Conservative Ministers.
Aquind have been lobbying Ministers to give the green light to a £1.2 bn electric interconnector project which is fierely opposed by the local community - and even the local Conservative MP.

Anne-Martie Trevelyan herself has received £2,500 from Aquind.

portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/…
In total Aquind and Director Alexander Temerko have donated over £1.3 million to the Conservative Party, Conservative Ministers and MP.

The former Business Secretary @AlokSharma_RDG even sat down for dinner with Temerko at a £12,000 Tory Party fundraiser.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
The Prime Minister is clearly not willing to stamp out the corruption that has engulfed his government if his Ministers and MPs are taking over £1 million in donations from a company that is also lobbying the government to sign off on this project.

thetimes.co.uk/article/anne-m…
Why are the Tories in bed with Aquind?

As revealed in the Pandora Papers, "Fedotov (owner of Aquind) made at least $98m (£72m) from an offshore structure that appears to have funnelled profits from a company accused of corruption via multiple tax havens".
theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/…
There are many more links:

Lord Callanan, a former Tory MEP and a current Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was a non-executive director at Aquind.

Former Tory Minister James Wharton was hired by Aquind in 2017.

gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-…
This isn't just a company writing a few letters.

This is a concerted lobbying campaign, backed up with huge cash donations being made directly to Conservative Ministers, including the Chancellor @RishiSunak who has also received cash from Temerko.

examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-new…
For more on Aquind and the campaign to stop the project follow @StephenMorganMP who is doing great work with his community.

Any pretence that this Conservative government is able to make an impartial decision on the project - with their pockets stuffed with cash - is laughable.

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25 Nov
Thread: Ministers have launched another cover up of corruption.

Today @SteveBarclay refused to publish meeting minutes and correspondence related to £3.5bn Covid contracts awarded without tender to Conservative Party donors and companies linked to Conservative Ministers (1/5)
.. And could not even say whether the missing (if they ever existed in the first place!) minutes from the Randox/Owen Paterson/Lord Bethell meetings had been found or will be published. The almost £600m given to Randox is just the tip of the Conservative corruption iceberg. (2/5)
The government must publish all the emails, WhatsApps, messages, correspondence and meeting minutes between government Ministers, special advisers, MPs and the companies linked to Conservative Ministers and the Conservative Party that were awarded £3.5 billion of contracts. (3/5)
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Last week Ministers admitted that they have no minutes or records from meetings between government Ministers and Randox - the company that paid Owen Paterson to lobby for them and was awarded £600m in contracts.

I have demanded an investigation into these secret meetings. (1/7)
On Wednesday when Labour forced a vote to make the government publish the minutes of the meetings between Ministers & Randox a government Minister told Parliament that they don't have the minutes. They either never existed or have been deleted/lost. (2/7)
If Ministers don't have the minutes to a specific meeting involving a Minister and a company that was awarded £600 million of contracts then logically there could have been many more meetings that have taken place in secret with companies that have been awarded contracts. (3/7)
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16 Nov
Let me tell you a story about @michaelgove.

Today it has been revealed that Michael Gove referred his close personal friend, personal donor and beauty company owner David Meller to the government’s fast-track VIP lane, helping him get a £50m contract.
politico.eu/article/conser…
As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster & Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove was in charge of the government’s procurement policy. In that role, @michaelgove was responsible for ensuring that all contracts are awarded “based on value for money.. achieved through competition”.
So can @michaelgove explain why he referred David Meller to the VIP fast-track and helped him get a £50m contract?

Is it anything to do with the fact that Mr Meller personally donated £3,000 to Michael Gove, and helped run Gove's leadership campaign in 2016? What a coincidence!
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23 Sep
Yesterday at #PMQs @DominicRaab tried to patronise and talk down to me. I've done a bit more research on the 115 room mansion, Chevening, that he is fighting over...

1. There is no mention of Chevening on the Charity Commission website so it does not appear to be a charity
2. Chevening has received taxpayers' money whilst the Conservatives have been in office.

3. The estate is exempt from paying taxes, so the taxpayer does in fact subsidise and therefore fund the estate.

4. The Chevening Estate Act says that the trust is not a charity.
5. But more importantly, why is @DominicRaab trying to justify the fact that he is more concerned with fighting over access to a 115 room mansion than he is with millions of families who are going to have to choose between eating and heating? He's so out of touch it hurts.
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Thread: @MichaelGove was too chicken to come to Parliament yesterday to answer questions on the Public First contract (the case where the government acted unlawfully by awarding a contract to his friends. So I’ve written to him with some questions. (1/10)
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
In this case the judge made a ruling of “apparent bias”, which is clearly a breach of the Ministerial Code. @michaelgove must now be investigated for breaching the Ministerial Code in this case. (2/10

But there is much more going on here. A separate court case ruled that @michaelgove’s department had also attempted to mislead a court about the Cabinet Office’s FOI ‘Clearing House’, and @michaelgove misled Parliament about this in December 2020. (3/10)

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11 Jun
I have demanded an investigation into @michaelgove breaking the Ministerial Code by misleading Parliament following a judge ruling that the Cabinet Office misled a court.

The Ministerial Code is clear that Ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament are expected to resign. (1/9)
After a 3 year legal battle the government lost a significant legal case regarding a secretive "Clearing House" in the Cabinet Office which handles FOI requests.

The judge in the case ruled that the Cabinet Office's case & defence was "misleading". (2/9)

opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-…
However, in December 2020 @michaelgove told Parliament that: "the idea that there is a secret clearing house... is... not correct".

This statement has just been proven to be untrue by the court judgement, so Michael Gove misled Parliament, either knowingly or unknowingly. (3/9)
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