This is Emanuel Gomes.
He was a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, working for £9.08 an hour, which was just above the legal minimum.
He continued to come into work during the early days of the lockdown.
He died on 23 April 2020.
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- As the Conservative party begins the process of electing another leader – and therefore, a de facto election of the Prime Minister – here’s a summation of our application for judicial review on the way it elects its leader. 🧵⬇️
- More than four months ago, we discussed the ‘mayhem’ that follows Dominic Cummings at a #TortoiseThinkIn @jillongovt, senior fellow at @instituteforgov, diagnosed the underlying issue in an almost clairvoyant manner...
00:00 - Replying to @tortoiseTo prove this, we registered Archie, our pet tortoise, as a member; a couple of foreign nationals; then Margaret Roberts, the maiden name of the late Lady Thatcher. The Conservative Party took the £25 membership fee. We got membership numbers and were invited to hustings.
- 💷Introducing: The Westminster Accounts. @tortoise and @SkyNews have created a first-of-its-kind database showing the scale of money entering UK politics. Use our tool to search for your MP and find out who has given them money 👉 torto.se/3Ctrw1W #westminsteraccounts
00:00 - You may remember the Syrian refugee Jamal – the video of him being attacked in a Huddersfield playground last year went viral. Having been chased out of town, he’s living in a new city and is still without a school to take his GCSEs.
- Replying to @tortoiseWe don’t see it that way. We think that running the election, as the Conservative Party itself puts it, for the next prime minister of the United Kingdom is a public function.
- Replying to @tortoise3️⃣We believe they’ve breached the common law principle of open government and human rights law guaranteeing information is made available to the public about the operation of our democracy.
- Replying to @tortoiseSo, on 10 October 2022, Tortoise formally submitted an application for judicial review of the Conservative Party’s refusal to disclose information about the way it elects its leaders.
- "It's something of real concern that there may be a number of secret agreements between the royal family and News Group." @pcaruanagalizia investigates Prince William's settlement with Rupert Murdoch's News Group in this week's Slow Newscast. 🎧 torto.se/48gibZL
00:00 - Who did Boris Johnson go to Italy with when he visited Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in 2018? @pcaruanagalizia had some questions, and this was the response he got from Downing St’s Director of Communications, Guto Harri. Listen: torto.se/3yZbXhf
00:00 - Replying to @tortoise2️⃣It is unsafe. We asked the Conservative Party to provide information about the demographics of the electorate, the efforts taken to validate party members and the process of securing the election from interference. They refused.
- Today we release our latest investigation. Author Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault by two former partners in the first claims of misconduct against him, and is the subject of a police complaint in New Zealand. Listen: lnk.to/Master-Ep1 🧵1/6
00:00 - We spent some time this week in The Jacob Rees-Mogg Supporters’ Group. The group, which is not affiliated with @Jacob_Rees_Mogg or the Conservative party, is home to rampant Islamophobia and death threats.
