PestFix and hedge fund Ayanda Capital at the height of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic

LONDON( Reuters)-The British government acted unlawfully by setting up a fast-track" VIP lane" to allow ministers and officials to recommend suppliers of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, a London court ruled on Wednesday. Opposition politicians have accused the government of running a" chumocracy", awarding deals to those with family or business links to people in power, including for what turned out to be unusable PPE in some cases. The campaign groups, the Good La

The government’s use of a VIP fast lane for suppliers of Covid personal protective equipment( PPE) with connections to ministers and officials has been ruled unlawful by the High Court. Campaigners from the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor took the Department of Health and Social Care to court over claims that suppliers with political links were given an unfair advantage in obtaining contracts running into hundreds of millions of pounds.In a ruling released today, judge Mrs Justice O’Farrell fou

Michael Gove has been accused of falsely claiming that a personal protective equipment( PPE) contract linked to a Conservative peer went through “ eight stages ” of checks, after the government admitted the vetting process did not happen. Cabinet Office minister previously told parliament that “ every single procurement decision went through an eight-stage process ” following Labour claims of cronyism over Covid contracts. But the government has now conceded that a ￡22.6m contract to supply gogg