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  • 12 January 2024
    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
    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
  • 6 January 2024
    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
  • 2 January 2024
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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?
  • 17 November 2023
    New Environment Secretary bankrolled by funder of climate denial group weeks before taking on role

    We can reveal that just before he was appointed Environment Secretary, Steve Barclay accepted a donation from a Conservative Party peer who has funded the Global Warming Policy Foundation – a group that lobbies against policies to tackle the climate emergency.

    New Environment Secretary bankrolled by funder of climate denial group weeks before taking on role
  • 17 November 2023
    Win: Scouts to increase child protection

    Good Law Project has been supporting Yours in Scouting – a campaign led by abuse victims – to overhaul safeguarding in the Scouts. ‘Our voices have been heard,’ says Sheanna Patelmaster.

    Win: Scouts to increase child protection
  • 14 November 2023
    PPE contracts worth £1.04bn ‘at risk’ of fraud and error

    Almost 10% of PPE contracts signed by the Government show ‘some degree of dissatisfaction’, with storage costs for unused equipment currently running at £14m a month. by Max Colbert

    PPE contracts worth £1.04bn ‘at risk’ of fraud and error
  • 9 November 2023
    As schools crumble, Tory donor’s company lands £11.5m contract

    Government failure has left children at risk from failing concrete. Now a company owned by a Tory donor is set to clean up.

    As schools crumble, Tory donor’s company lands £11.5m contract
  • 8 November 2023
    Dark money anti-abortion group ramps up activity in the UK

    The UK arm of Alliance Defending Freedom, a US pressure group which helped overturn Roe v Wade, almost doubled its spending between 2020 and 2022.

    Dark money anti-abortion group ramps up activity in the UK