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Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) with Health Secretary Matt Hancock
CAMPAIGNERS have slammed the Tories for putting their friends before the public following a damning court ruling today against cronyism at the heart of government.
A High Court judge said a government decision last year to award a contract to a company whose bosses were friends of the Prime Minister’s former special adviser Dominic Cummings was unlawful.
The Good Law Project took legal action against the Cabinet Office over the decision to pay more than £500,000 of taxpayers’ money to market research firm Public First, despite Mr Cummings’s close personal links to the company’s owners Rachel Wolf and James Frayne.
After the ruling, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner wrote to PM Boris Johnson, demanding he launches an urgent investigation into whether Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, an ally of Mr Cummings, broke the ministerial code over the affair.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
