🚨A few very questionable donations declared by MP’s today:

💷Priti Patel accepted another £10k donation (cost of a chauffeur) from a firm linked to PPE fixer - who she helped secure a £100m+ contract 🤦🏻‍♂️⤵️

💷Jenrick just took another £25k from Sports Fitness 🤦🏻‍♂️⤵️





Jenrick has now accepted £100k from Sports Fitness ⤵️

news.sky.com/story/amp/busi…

🚨 Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’, study finds

Findings by @TransparencyUK point to ‘more than coincidence or incompetence’, says chief executive ⤵️

theguardian.com/politics/artic… Nothing to see here 👀⤵️

Looking forward to the Conservative party questioning these housing transactions ⬇️

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Here’s the This £7.25m Berkshire stately home bought in July 2020 by Zoe Ley.

Ley made £20m brokering a VIP PPE deal alongside former Tory MP Brooks Newmark ➡️ goodlawproject.org/broker-bought-…
Here’s the £1.5m pad brought by Tory donor and former Councillor Steve Dechan.

Dechan brought the mansion following a £200m+ PPE deal secured via the VIP lane. ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-s…

Manchester City held a meeting with Sports Minister Stuart Andrew last May.

The meeting was to discuss the Football Governance White Paper.

I sent in an FOI request for a copy of the minutes - they’ve refused to provide them.

Ministers think it’s not in the public interest

🧵 Ministers claim releasing them would inhibit the “free & frank” exchange of views⏬

“attendees are concerned that their views and opinions raised in meetings will be released, they may be reluctant to contribute to meetings, or may withhold sensitive but important information”

David Cameron appears to be going to considerable lengths to delay/hide his business dealings since leaving office in 2016

Here's what we know/don't know so far:

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1 - He still hasn't published his register of interests. Parliament website states: "Awaiting information" 2 - The Foreign Office (FCDO) has not declared any of his work outside of politic's covering the period from 2016 to 2013.

Instead the FCDO have decided to reference his work at Carlton Communications which was pre 2010.

gov.uk/government/peo…

🚨🚨Covid inquiry has started to publish some of Boris Johnson’s / Dominic Cummings WhatsApp’s ⬇️

“We got big problems. CABOFF is terrifyingly shit, no plans, totally behind pace..” 👀

Cummings to Johnson 12 March 2020 Link: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq0…

🔴Worth remembering that @citizenlab @RonDeibert previously reported in April 2022 that both the Prime Minister’s office and the FCDO were suspected of being hacked by Pegasus spyware previously in 2020 and 2021 ⬇️

citizenlab.ca/2022/04/uk-gov… Here’s the Guardian report at the time: amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Can a leopard really change its spots?

Here’s a look at who’s been funding Boris Johnson since he resigned as PM

A short 🧵 The Reuben brothers controlled developer ‘investors in Private Capital Ltd’ handed Boris an office space the day after he resigned as PM.

Valued at £85,320 per year.

The firm is directed by major Tory donor and partner in the Saudi led takeover of Newcastle FC - Jamie Reuben

🚨FOI: Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng meet with Fossil fuel giant BP and Vitol in late 2021 to 'discuss energy'

🔴Government has confirmed NO minutes were taken at both meetings. 🤷‍♂️

🔴BP just recorded it's highest profits in 15 years - As energy bills soar.

🧵 🔴This isn't the first time the government has failed to be transparent about it's relationship with BP.

🔴Last year @GoodLawProject revealed that Government refuses to reveal details of PM’s meeting with BP, saying it’s ‘not in the public interest’ 🤯

goodlawproject.org/news/boris-joh…

🔴FOI: Downing street is refusing to confirm if it holds any WhatsApp messages between the PM and Mohammed Bin Salman.

Its also refusing to release any of the messages via FOI.

Add this response to the ever expanding list of concerns regarding the PM's comms.

🧵 🔴Last month following @GoodLawProject legal challenge regarding Minister's persistent use of private comms. It was revealed that none of the Prime Minister’s phone messages prior to April 2021 can be searched

goodlawproject.org/update/pm-mess…

Today the NAO published it's third investigation into the governments PPE procurement during the pandemic.

It makes for very uncomfortable reading for the Government and it's 'VIP' pals.

🧵 🔴The NAO confirmed 46 out of 115 contracts handed to 'VIP's 'did not go through the eight-stage due diligence process'

The NAO said the DHSC did not 'fully understand the contract management risks it was exposing itself to' with these VIP's🤨

Something really is wrong with the @DHSCgovuk record on Ministerial transparency!

A short thread: The former Health Secretary held a meeting on 17 March 2020 with a testing company Thriva.

However there is no sign of this meeting in the @DHSCgovuk transparency data.

Thriva went on to secure £185m in covid testing contracts.

🚨Here's a run down of the investigations @GoodLawProject has worked on this week 🚨

Enjoy ⬇️ 📢On Wednesday, We revealed how private hospitals were paid over £1.5 billion during the pandemic.

Despite providing only ‘0.08% of COVID care’ overall. 🤯

@GoodLawProject obtained the data following an 8month FOI battle ⬇️

goodlawproject.org/news/private-h…

I have now worked at @GoodLawProject for 7 months.

I'm lucky to work for an organisation that values & invests in Investigative journalism. To celebrate here is a small selection of some of the great investigations we've worked on so far...

Here goes... In April, working with @phill_kemp we revealed the role of a former Tory parliamentary candidate and party donor in a huge £100m government PPE deal - Awarded without any competition.

But the story of Samir Jassal and PDL didn't end there

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-566679…

🚨 🚨Latest data published by Electoral commission on political donations has revealed the Tories received at least £400k from individuals connected to firms who secured £360m+ in Government Covid contracts

{Thread 1/5} First up, Bloor Holding's owned by John Bloor donated £150,000 to the Tories.

His firm Pickering's Hire was awarded £14.4m deal from the DHSC test and trace programme. (reported by @BylineTimes )

bylinetimes.com/2021/03/11/new…

I have now worked at @GoodLawProject for 3 months. It's incredibly rewarding working for an organisation that values and invests in Investigative journalism.

To celebrate here is a small selection of some of the great investigations we've worked on so far.

Here goes.. In April, working with @phill_kemp we revealed The role of a former Tory parliamentary candidate and party donor in a huge £100m government PPE deal - Awarded without any competition.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-566679…

NEW: @GoodLawProject has uncovered remarkable evidence that Lord Feldman lobbied DHSC on behalf of Bunzl (his lobbying firm's client) whilst at the same time working as an unpaid advisor for Matt Hancock & Lord Bethell within DHSC.

Bunzl landed a £23m PPE deal shortly after!

https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1392752148186816512

Full story reported by @PickardJE in the @FT:

'Former Tory chair faces conflict of interest claims over PPE contract,

ft.com/content/b16595…