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  • 2nd February 2024
    News 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
  • 31st January 2024
    Case Update Sunak’s claims that Tory data grab is lawful don’t add up

    Dawn Butler challenged Rishi Sunak over his party’s tool to capture voter data at Prime Minister’s Questions. And now the Tories are on shaky ground.

    Sunak’s claims that Tory data grab is lawful don’t add up
  • 29th January 2024
    News 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’
  • 25th January 2024
    Case Update Why do the Tories hate onshore wind power?

    The Government has made it harder to generate power from wind than from incinerators. We’re taking legal action to help spark a revolution in renewable power.

    Why do the Tories hate onshore wind power?
  • 23rd January 2024
    Case Update As the Tories max out the North Sea, we’re defending net zero

    The Government has been refusing to publish its assessment of its failing green strategy for months. It’s time to make them come clean.

    As the Tories max out the North Sea, we’re defending net zero
  • 22nd January 2024
    Case Update Exposed: Tory data scam

    The Tories have launched an online tool that breaks privacy law. We’re launching a legal challenge to protect our data rights.

    Exposed: Tory data scam
  • 18th January 2024
    News £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
  • 17th 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
  • 12th 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
  • 11th 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
  • 11th 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
  • 6th 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
  • 3rd 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
  • 2nd 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
  • 22nd 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
  • 21st 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