‘Taxpayers need to know reality over Michelle Mone £200million Covid contracts’
Michael Gove and Matt Hancock being interviewed within the probe into £200million Covid contracts awarded to Michelle Mone and her husband Douglas Barrowman raises authentic public questions.
The National Crime Agency spoke to Levelling Up Secretary Gove, previously the Cabinet Office Minister on the coronary heart of Government, and ex-Health Secretary Hancock as witnesses.
Other Ministers in publish on the time the profitable offers with PPE Medpro had been granted by means of a VIP lane have additionally been grilled. Tory peer Mone acknowledged this month she was concerned with the corporate and individually the Department of Health and Social Care is taking authorized motion for the return of £122m it paid for unused medical robes that officers deemed had been unsafe.
Mone and her husband deny any wrongdoing and PPE Medpro is defending the Health Department’s declare. But taxpayers need to know the contested reality.
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War and hope
Seeing the reduction and pleasure on the faces of launched Israeli hostages and their households is a uncommon second of hope in a battle that has claimed hundreds of lives.
Palestinians are relieved too that Israel is releasing prisoners as a part of a brief ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the US.
But the hope that ceasefire will be extended could also be fleeting until Hamas continues to return Israelis it barbarously seized and Israel agrees to halt an operation killing large numbers of civilians, in addition to terrorists.
When hope is all many people have, let’s hope it isn’t in useless.
One ‘El of a Tel
Terry Venables was an extremely gifted soccer coach who was beloved like few different England managers after he guided the workforce to the verge of glory in Euro 96.
The ever quotable boss of Spurs and Barcelona in addition to England was a bigger than life character who gave followers many joyful moments that may reside lengthy in our recollections.
