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  • 17 January 2024
    News Water industry plan for ‘urgent change’ now four months late

    The water industry promised to publish its plan to tackle its sewage dumping by summer 2023. Four months on, it still hasn’t materialised. So we’ve demanded answers.

    Water industry plan for ‘urgent change’ now four months late
  • 12 January 2024
    News Tory Minister takes £5,000 donation from Palantir’s UK boss

    Housing Minister, Lee Rowley, accepted a £5,000 donation from Palantir’s Executive President for UK and Europe just a few months after the spy-tech giant landed its controversial £330m data contract with NHS England.

    Tory Minister takes £5,000 donation from Palantir’s UK boss
  • 11 January 2024
    News Labour to roll back private equity’s sweetheart deal on tax

    Our legal challenge forced HMRC to abandon a sweetheart deal that costs the public purse £420m a year. Now Keir Starmer wants to enforce the law so he can fund child mental health services.

    Labour to roll back private equity’s sweetheart deal on tax
  • 11 January 2024
    Case Update Legal pressure forces Scottish Government to come clean on climate impacts

    Scottish Ministers were keeping details of the climate impact of their £26bn infrastructure plan under wraps. Now Good Law Project and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland have won a promise to publish them.

    Legal pressure forces Scottish Government to come clean on climate impacts
  • 6 January 2024
    News NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach

    NHS England has confirmed that it will investigate whether Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform, after the tech giant covertly launched an influencer campaign which targeted Good Law Project.

    NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
  • 3 January 2024
    Case Update Charity Commission must investigate potential ‘serious breach’ say MPs

    A year after cross-party MPs joined Good Law Project to request an investigation, new facts about climate denial charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation make an inquiry all the more urgent.

    Charity Commission must investigate potential ‘serious breach’ say MPs
  • 2 January 2024
    News How Palantir and Topham Guerin’s plan to discredit us unravelled

    Social media influencers give us the inside story of a campaign to discredit Good Law Project over the concerns we have raised about the award of a huge NHS data contract to tech giant, Palantir.

    How Palantir and Topham Guerin’s plan to discredit us unravelled
  • 22 December 2023
    News PR firm that works for the Tories and Palantir offers to pay for attacks on us

    Leaked emails reveal that the tech giant Palantir has hired Topham Guerin to pay influencers to attack Good Law Project on social media – but the source of the money is to be kept ‘confidential’.

    PR firm that works for the Tories and Palantir offers to pay for attacks on us
  • 21 December 2023
    News Firm referred by Tory peer bagged PPE contracts at twice average price

    Lord Chadlington, a former adviser to David Cameron, was behind ‘interesting’ £50m VIP lane deal for hand gel and gowns, more than half of which was unusable. The wasted money may never be recovered. by Max Colbert

    Firm referred by Tory peer bagged PPE contracts at twice average price
  • 20 December 2023
    News We’re helping The New European sue Michelle Mone

    The newspaper has spent thousands of pounds defending legal action from Michelle Mone over its coverage of the PPE Medpro scandal. Now we’re going to get it back. 

    We’re helping The New European sue Michelle Mone
  • 15 December 2023
    News Sunak took £16,000 helicopter ride from firm who won huge Government contracts

    Rishi Sunak took a helicopter journey worth £16,000 to a political visit, paid for by The Phoenix Partnership – a company that has won Government contracts that have so far totalled almost £140m.

    Sunak took £16,000 helicopter ride from firm who won huge Government contracts
  • 11 December 2023
    News VIP lane contracts inflated by £925m

    Good Law Project can reveal that fast-track contracts handed out to Tory connections were 80% more expensive than other suppliers.

    VIP lane contracts inflated by £925m
  • 5 December 2023
    News Anti-immigration group calls for ‘action on the streets’

    Speaking at the launch of a new Tufton Street pressure group, Neil Philip Anderson proposed ‘grassroots local action’ to put the issue on to the political agenda.  by Max Colbert

    Anti-immigration group calls for ‘action on the streets’
  • 5 December 2023
    News The Tories’ handling of Covid was a disaster – but was it misconduct?

    With billions of pounds wasted and hundreds of thousands dead, the Covid inquiry is a daily reminder of Tory failure. But it’s hard to prove that Ministers’ bungling broke the law.

    The Tories’ handling of Covid was a disaster – but was it misconduct?
  • 1 December 2023
    Case Update Government stalls on climate transparency as Sunak jets to COP28

    We gave Ministers a final chance to come clean over the risks to their plans for net zero. But the Government is trying to buy time before the weaknesses in its climate strategy are revealed.

    Government stalls on climate transparency as Sunak jets to COP28
  • 27 November 2023
    Case Update Why we’re working to uphold the privacy of NHS patient data

    We answer some of the questions being asked over our concerns about Palantir, the National Data Opt-Out and the legal challenge we are preparing to protect the privacy of NHS patient data in England.  

    Why we’re working to uphold the privacy of NHS patient data