I have written to @BorisJohnson and every single Cabinet Minister to ask them to finally come clean about parties they have attended.
Enough of the dodging and denial, the British public deserve the truth right now.
Hi @pritipatel
Anything you'd like to tell us about? I know you were a strong defender of lockdown rules.
Hi @michaelgove
I know you love a good party, hopefully they are always within the rules. Anything you'd like to tell us?
Hi @DominicRaab
Were you enjoying the lovely weather with your own booze? Not quite Greece I know, but maybe you found yourself at a party you'd like to tell us about.
Hi @OliverDowden
You were at No.10 just an hour before the party. Anything you'd like to tell us?
Hi @Jacob_Rees_Mogg
You seem to think the rules are quite difficult to follow, anything on reflection you'd like to tell us about?
Hi @trussliz
I'm sure BYOB and the Downing Street garden is a bit down market for you, but if there are any parties you'd like to tell us about, we're all ears.
Hi @RishiSunak
Did you look out of your window at all? Or should you have gone to @Specsavers
Time to come clean.
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Yesterday I gave a speech at @instituteforgov setting out Labour's plans to clean up politics - tougher rules and proper enforcement of the rules by an independent body that is not controlled by the Prime Minister.
The truth is that the current system only works when there is respect for the rules and there are consequences for breaking them.
Because of Boris Johnson there is no respect for the rules and no consequences for breaking them. That is why we need to change the system. (2/17)
Corruption is happening in plain sight and it is rife right through this government. But the rules are only as good as the mechanisms that are there to enforce them.
Our democracy cannot hinge on gentlemen’s agreements - it needs independent and robust protection. (3/17)
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.
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)
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)
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!
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.