The Tories bought £40m of useless PPE through a pub

Medicine Box hooked up with The Plough to land a massive contract. But now the company has dissolved there’s little chance the money wasted on useless coveralls will ever be recovered.

By Max Colbert

PPE losses rise to £14.9 billion

The Department of Health and Social Care’s annual accounts for 2021-22 have revealed a further £6 billion write down in connection with PPE and other inventory. This follows a staggering £8.9bn write down in 2020-21. 

A dark day for accountability

The Courts will not control the use by Ministers – in breach of Government’s own policies – of private phones and messaging services, including to negotiate commercial deals with VIPs or share sensitive national security information, the Court of Appeal has this morning ruled.