Exclusive: The Government has incinerated or written off £1.4 BILLION worth of Covid PPE, provided by one supplier in the summer of 2020 - it is the single most wasteful public contract of the whole pandemic. Thread 1/
Full Support Healthcare, a company of 25 staff based in Wellingborough, won orders totalling £1.8bn for aprons, masks and gowns. But after repeated FOI requests, the Dept for Health & Social Care’s PPE procurement partner, SCCL, revealed almost all of it will never be used. 2/
Nov 12, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"The cumulative effect (on Channel migrants at Dover, Yarl's Wood, Brook House and on charter flights) amounts to inhumane treatment which should be urgently addressed"
Damning written evidence from IMBs now published on the @CommonsHomeAffs website
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The Independent Monitoring Boards' concerns are so great they have raised them in a letter to the Immigration Minister (this rarely ever happens)
Oct 8, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has seen video evidence which shows for the first time that UK livestock is being shipped to the Middle East and slaughtered. Welfare standards are basically non-existent in third countries. Footage obtained by @AnimalsInt and the German @AWF_Official THREAD 1
The bullock on the floor of this slaughterhouse in Lebanon in August has UK ear-tags. It has travelled thousands of miles in its short life to be killed in the most dreadful way. People may find the video in my next tweet distressing. 2