Ministers will come under intense pressure this week to explain how they assessed that a personal protective equipment (PPE) company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone was fit to receive government contracts worth more than £200m during the pandemic.
Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, has drawn up a list of parliamentary questions over the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) decision to award major public contracts to the firm and whether it took into account its tax record.
The Guardian reported last week that Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of the company, PPE Medpro, which was later transferred to a secret offshore trust.
Ministers face pressure to explain PPE Medpro contracts decision, theguardian.com
Month: November 2022
Conservative Jake Berry joins growing rebellion trying to force PM into U-turn over onshore wind ban [Sky News]
The former party chairman, Sir Jake Berry, added his name on Sunday to the list of MPs backing an amendment to force Rishi Sunak into a U-turn on onshore wind.
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Dangerous Tory Plan to Delete all EU Law
The Tory government has given the civil service one year to retain any laws it needs even though it is highly likely to require more than seven years for current staffing levels to do so assuming that they did nothing else.
The government wants to sunset all EU laws despite recent revelations that the government was not even away of a third of such laws as they had entirely missed over a thousand of them. This would cause legal uncertainty, scare away business investment, and over-tax the civil service.
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Should Hancock face criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of elderly people due to his COVID cash handouts?
Trouble for Rishi Sunak as minister quits over scandal two weeks after both take office
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered his first ministerial resignation, just two weeks to the day since the new leader took office and made the appointment.
Cabinet Office minister Gavin Williamson said he was stepping down to “comply fully” with an investigation into whether he had bullied colleagues while in previous roles.
The Sunday Times and other newspapers have reported that Williamson had treated government officials aggressively and sent expletive-laden messages to colleagues.
Trouble for Rishi Sunak as minister quits over scandal two weeks after both take office, euronews.com