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  1. Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

    And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

    theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

    #PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

  2. Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

    And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

    theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

    #PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

  3. Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

    And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

    theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

    #PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

  4. Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

    And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

    theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

    #PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

  5. Case won, but I have this uncomfortable feeling that the government will never see the money back.

    And what about all the other contracts for ultimately useless product bought through the "VIP lane"? It amounts to billions, and puts PPE Medpro in the shade.

    theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

    #PPEMedpro #MichelleMone #Covid #VIPLane

  6. The next stage of the covid PPE VIP lane scandal to be unearthed by @goodlawproject looks likely to be that 'a small group of senior civil servants created false evidence trails to try & cover up the fact that valuable PPE contracts were diverted to Tory VIPs'!

    Yup, more evidence of the levels of Tory corruption.... and of course, as in so many previous political scandals, its the cover-up that may finally take down the participants

    #covid #PPE #VIPlane #politics

  7. The biggest VIP lane winner of the pandemic was a company called Innova. Good Law Project has seen a cache of documents from US courts about its 🤯 affairs.

    Thread below

    threadreaderapp.com/thread/179

    #politics #viplane #goodlaw

  8. Broker bought £7.25m manor house weeks after landing VIP lane contracts

    '...£7.25m Berkshire stately home was bought in July 2020 with profits from contracts landed through the #Tories#unlawful #VIPLane – contracts where more than 40% of the money was spent on #PPE that the #NHS felt unable to use.

    goodlawproject.org/broker-boug
    #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption #Covid19 #ProfitsBeforePeople

  9. “The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”

    Colour me shocked. Not.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedPro #VIPLane

  10. “The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”

    Colour me shocked. Not.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedPro #VIPLane

  11. “The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”

    Colour me shocked. Not.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedPro #VIPLane

  12. “The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”

    Colour me shocked. Not.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedPro #VIPLane

  13. “The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”

    Colour me shocked. Not.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedPro #VIPLane

  14. #PostOffice scandal. Great to see the outrage over #Horizon and all the politicians getting on the bandwagon.
    How about an #ITV drama on #VIPLane in #Covid procurement? Where is the wasted £37 billion?

  15. @ChrisMayLA6 @goodlawproject

    Including "up to four times higher than average", and forgetting to mention that some of such companies sprouted out like mushrooms after the rain and were led by relatives and friends of the politicians referring them to the government ... Theft by another name, yet, indeed, they have "done nothing wrong": all legal. But legal isn't moral, or right, or impervious to further legal inquire and revision – time will tell.

    #UK #PPE #VIPLane

  16. CW: UK Politics; PPE Medpro

    “We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

    How convenient

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-640

  17. CW: UK Politics; PPE Medpro

    “We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

    How convenient - should keep things quiet until after a General Election

    #UKPolitics #PPEMedpro #BaronessMone #VIPLane

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-640

  18. CW: UK Politics; PPE Medpro

    “We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

    How convenient

    #UKPolitics #PPEMedpro #BaronessMone #VIPLane

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-640

  19. CW: UK Politics; PPE Medpro

    “We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

    How convenient

    #UKPolitics #PPEMedpro #BaronessMone #VIPLane

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-640

  20. CW: UK Politics; PPE Medpro

    “We do not comment on matters that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings” says the Department of Health’s spokesperson, on the news that they’re suing PPE Medpro for breach of contract

    How convenient

    #UKPolitics #PPEMedpro #BaronessMone #VIPLane

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-640

  21. CW: UK Politics; Immensa; VIP lane

    Ministers originally claimed it was “completely false” to say there was a VIP lane for testing contracts

    This was a lie

    Good Law Project exposed the truth as to which companies benefitted - and they’re still fighting to uncover who referred them

    Watch this space 👀

    #UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

  22. CW: UK Politics; Immensa; VIP lane

    Tens of thousands of people were given false negative Covid results by Immensa - and 23 are now estimated to have died as a result

    Immensa was one of the beneficiaries of the Test & Trace VIP lane, as revealed by Good Law Project

    #UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

    bbc.com/news/uk-england-637952

  23. CW: UK Politics; Immensa; VIP lane

    At the time, we at Good Law Project threatened legal action, observing “We don’t know why government chose to sidestep established testing facilities in universities and hospitals to send £119m to a newly formed private company”

    When we find out *who* added Immensa to the VIP Lane, might we also find out why?

    #UKPolitics #Immensa #Covid #VIPLane #TestAndTrace

  24. Oh, look who’s stuck her head above the parapet… or rather, her “representative” has. Where are you, Miche?

    “Mone’s lawyer said at the time there were ‘a number of reasons why our client cannot comment on these issues’”, the main one being that the Guardian had her bang to rights, as is now clear from these admissions.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n

    #MichelleMone #PPEMedpro #VIPLane #GovernmentContracts

  25. t.co/8at1wxCzPn #ppemedpro “won contracts through the government's so-called #viplane in 2020 after being recommended by #Conservative peer Baroness #Mone.
    The govt is attempting to get its #money #back on one of the deals, for the supply of medical gowns during the pandemic, in the High Court.
    PPE Medpro said it would "rigorously" defend the claim.
    The company accused the govt of a "cynical attempt" to recover money from suppliers who had acted in good faith+to contract specifications.”