Nobody even asks Boris Johnson where the Brexit £350m is for the NHS; it’s just accepted that Britain left the EU based on huge lies, and all a bit embarrassing to bring it up.
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Investigations correspondent for the Guardian. Author: The Fall of the House of Fifa amazon.co.uk/Fall-House-Fif… .
- EXCLUSIVE: The full inside story of the Michelle Mone PPE scandal; More than £100m profits on £203m Government contracts shared by Mone & husband and 3 other companies, mostly offshore. By me with our brilliant head of investigations @PaulLewis.
- Michelle Mone’s lawyers sent us fierce denials that she was involved in PPE Medpro; Company was “proud” its PPE “helped keep our NHS workers safe”; In fact the gowns, for which the govt paid £122m, were rejected after inspection, never used in the NHS.
- Boris Johnson claimed the NHS would get £350m a week if people voted to leave the EU; now raising that money by increasing people’s National Insurance payments.
- Some of the denials Michelle Mone & Doug Barrowman's lawyers sent to me and @guardian here, including: “You have now been placed on notice on numerous occasions of our client’s position in relation to PPE Medpro. She has no involvement in the business.”
- Peter Bone, Brexit-supporting Tory MP, just said on #newsnight that an ‘Australia style deal’ is one of the options - when the EU has no deal with Australia. That’s the level we’re still at, four years since the lies referendum.
- Government ordered to pay 75% of @GoodLawProject legal costs after contract given to Public First, run by ex-colleagues of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings, was ruled unlawful. Government also decided not to appeal.
- Excellent #Panorama programme on Roman Abramovich says his “secret past” is finally catching up with him; But it wasn’t secret - it was all aired in public in a 2012 London court case, as the programme said; No concerns were raised by the Premier League or UK establishment.
- Priti Patel another who backed booing the England players for their anti-racism stance, now trying to associate herself with their success.
- Kelvin Mackenzie writes a nasty, stupid slur about Liverpool again - the day before the anniversary of 96 deaths at Hillsborough. Words fail
- EXCLUSIVE: Revealed: Conservative peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE company, documents seen by the Guardian indicate.
- BREAKING: Hillsborough: Six people have been charged with criminal offences, including ex Ch Supt Duckenfield & Sir Norman Bettison.
