‘We didn’t find anything like that in the World’: Transparency chief discusses Covid VIP lane
It comes amid findings that Conservative Covid contracts worth £15 billion had 'red flags' of corruption.
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Corruption ‘red flags’ uncovered in Covid contracts worth £15 billion
Transparency International UK said there had been a collapse in the normal checks and balances during the pandemic.
Boris Johnson’s Covid WhatsApps from old phone STILL not handed to inquiry
Government officials are helping him to try to retrieve the messages on the locked device relating to the early pandemic response, it is understood.
Pandemic plans stalled due to no-deal Brexit preparations – Welsh medical chief
Sir Frank Atherton told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that planning for potential future health emergencies had all but stopped by 2019.
Matt Hancock says not a day goes by when he does not think of Covid dead
Protesters greeted the former health secretary outside the inquiry building, with one holding a sign saying: 'You shook my husband’s hand for your photo op'.
Johnson hands WhatsApps and notebooks to Cabinet Office amid Covid inquiry row
A spokesman for Boris Johnson said all the material requested by the Covid inquiry had been handed to the Cabinet Office and should be disclosed.
Covid lab leak should not be ruled out, says Chinese scientist
Wuhan is home to one of China’s top national laboratories known to have spent years studying coronaviruses.
It’s three years since one of Trump’s most unhinged moments
The press conference was hilariously parodied by comedian Sarah Cooper in a video entitled 'How to medical'.
Deadly tick-borne virus ‘likely’ to be in UK after first case detected
The assessment based its findings on both human cases and the detection of the virus in ticks in a worrying new report.