Emails released to Byline Times reveal the close connections between senior Conservatives and those prioritised for multimillion pound COVID contracts
Coronavirus
Primer Design’s turnover jumped by 4,800% after supplying tests that were later deemed “unfit for public use”
New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion
Two days before winning the contract, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed 'pizza' from its name
The director of the company awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and fraudulent evasion of income tax
MPs point to the 'direct conflict' for permanent secretary of department and the huge sums given to professional rugby clubs
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
Private correspondence reveals officials felt threatened by firms benefiting from "back-scratching" by Conservative ministers
Newly-released documents reveal the peer also helped a "generous and loyal supporter" of the Conservative party secure another £93 million PPE contract
Life expectancy has fallen since Covid in almost every country although the policy response has been exactly the opposite to what should be expected. We now have the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services advocating ‘personal choice’ in vaccine take up while he recommended Vitamin A to deal with a spreading measles outbreak…