UK: Good Law Project Findings Move Labour Party To Say They Will appoint a Covid Corruption Commissioner if they win power

We exposed the unlawful VIP lane that helped Ministers’ friends land huge contracts for gloves, masks and hospital gowns. Today, Labour has promised to appoint a Covid Corruption Commissioner if it wins power.

We are now pushing forward with our work exposing waste and sleaze by commissioning legal advice on how a future Government could claw back wasted money.

It is outrageous that the current Government wasted £10bn on unused and unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic. While millions of people lost their jobs and struggled to make ends meet, Government cronies bought yachts and mansions after being handed lucrative contracts.

The Government has already admitted there was “a high risk of fraud in the procurement of PPE”, but we have yet to see a single prosecution. Instead, Rishi Sunak pressured the courts into closing the door on legal challenges.

But we won’t stand for this – the law must apply equally to rich and poor.

Thanks to the huge support we received from people like you, we’ve appointed two distinguished journalists to comb through the vast amount of unpublished data we hold relating to PPE contracts. They’re starting this week on a year-long project to investigate the Government’s misuse of public money during the pandemic.

This is an important strand of our wider work at Good Law Project to hold power to account. Any support you can give will help us continue to make positive change.