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  • 21 February 2024
    The PPE scandal is far from over

    The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.

    The PPE scandal is far from over
  • 17 February 2024
    We’re taking legal action to uncover Palantir’s blanked-out contract

    Almost three quarters of the contract between the tech giant and the NHS is completely blanked out. It’s time to see what it’s hiding.

    We’re taking legal action to uncover Palantir’s blanked-out contract
  • 14 February 2024
    Turning Tory waste into shards of hope

    We exposed how the Government was selling off £135m of unused ventilators at a knock-down price.  Now a charity is buying them up to put them to good use.

    Turning Tory waste into shards of hope
  • 2 February 2024
    Michael Gove opened the door to biggest VIP lane firm

    Fervent prayers for ‘the Conservative Party’ and a promise to ‘follow up!’ How Michael Gove’s emails greased the wheels of Unispace’s £679m PPE deals. with Russell Scott

    Michael Gove opened the door to biggest VIP lane firm
  • 2 February 2024
    Tory donor’s oil and gas firm offered another license to drill

    The latest round of North Sea oil and gas licenses is bad news for the future of our planet, but good news for the profit forecasts of a Tory donor’s company.

    Tory donor’s oil and gas firm offered another license to drill
  • 29 January 2024
    Government sells £135m worth of pandemic ventilators for ‘peanuts’

    Excalibur Healthcare bagged a contract for ventilators at £50,000 each. Now the Tories are flogging thousands of the same model – never used – for a starting price of as little as £100 each. By Russell Scott

    Government sells £135m worth of pandemic ventilators for ‘peanuts’
  • 18 January 2024
    £336m likely to be lost after VIP lane companies shut up shop

    Firms that bagged massive contracts have now stopped trading, meaning that hundreds of millions of pounds spent on unusable PPE is likely to be unrecoverable. by Max Colbert

    £336m likely to be lost after VIP lane companies shut up shop
  • 17 January 2024
    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
    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