REVEALED: Tory donor’s company awarded £4.5 million Government contract to take care of mountain of unusable PPE waste

A £4.5 million Government contract has been handed to a company headed up by a major Conservative Party donor to dispose of unused PPE, Good Law Project can reveal.

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Scrutinising PPE Procurement

This legal campaign helped draw wide attention to the institutionalisation of cronyism in the VIP lane.
The Court found that the VIP lane, through which Ayanda and Pestfix, won their contracts, was illegal.

EXCLUSIVE: WhatsApp messages reveal Matt Hancock helped Tory donor win covid contract that cost the taxpayer £38m

Mustafa Mohammed, who had donated over £230,000 to the Conservative party, lobbied Hancock on behalf of two companies.

The Tories’ last-ditch attempt to silence us on the PPE scandal

The government is bringing legal proceedings against Good Law Project to stop it publishing an explosive new PPE story.

Last week we asked the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) – and the company in question – to respond to a story we proposed to publish about astonishing undertakings given to secure a lucrative and controversial VIP contract.

The story emerged from minutes of the Covid Clearance Board – the body which approved new PPE deals during the course of the pandemic. An organisation working with Good Law Project lawfully obtained a redacted copy of those minutes. But those redactions had been botched and could be undone to uncover an extraordinary revelation – one we think you ought to know.

DHSC replied to our request for a comment with a formal letter before action headed: “Proposed Urgent Injunctive Relief” and said, unequivocally, that “if you indicate that your intention is to publish such information, we intend to seek an urgent interim injunction to prevent publication.” It asked us to make a variety of further promises including that we would “delete the incorrectly-redacted FOIA Response” and tell them who we shared the story with.

We agreed to tell them if we planned to publish the story – but we refused to give them the broader undertakings they sought. Late on Monday, we told them we would publish at 12 noon on Wednesday 3 July. We have instructed a law firm and Counsel to act for us in those proceedings. We expect that defending the injunction will cost around £50,000 – including costs if the government succeeds.

It’s not red or blue. It’s power we hold to account

Since taking office, Keir Starmer has begun to deliver on some of his promises. But he has also made some bad choices. We’re here to hold the government to account.

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Lawyers Who Care to unlock new legal talent

UK group launches mission to help care-experienced people fulfil their dreams of a career in the legal profession.

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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.

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Court rules against government attempt to block release of Sunak’s financial disclosures

In a win for transparency, the Cabinet Office has failed in its last ditch attempt to prevent the release of details of Rishi Sunak’s financial dealings while prime minister.

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