Question contracts
Key public providers are going to damage – however one household appears to be doing very properly out of the general public purse – Rishi Sunak’s.
Questions have to be requested when an IT agency part-owned by the Prime Minister’s spouse, Akshata Murty, obtained nearly £7million in public sector contracts final 12 months.
Downing Street and the Cabinet Office could insist it’s all above board however the Sunak’s partner holding a £619m stake in Infosys, co-founded by her father, illustrates how out of contact they’re from hard-pressed voters.
Most households have any person who works within the NHS or for the council however not a big slice of a agency whose Government work elevated from £4.7m the 12 months earlier than with the prospect of extra to return.
It can’t be proper {that a} Tory ruling elite – additionally liable for Covid scandal VIP lane cronyism – is doing far, much better out of public providers than anyone who makes use of, pays for or works for them.
Taken for journey
Matt Hancock being handed a free chauffeur-driven automotive to the Covid inquiry provides insult to harm for bereaved households. After quitting in shame the previous Health Secretary earned a small fortune by making an attempt to reinvent himself as a actuality TV star.
He may have simply afforded to get himself to the hearings utilizing the £320,000 paid by I’m a Celebrity, £45,000 from Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins and £48,000 for writing his
self-congratulatory diaries.
It will not be proper that taxpayers decide up the invoice for Hancock’s private transport. Those who blame him and different members of the Tory Government for the deaths of members of the family have each proper to be livid.
Net catfishers
Romance scammers have damaged hearts and financial institution balances by tricking folks, primarily ladies, out of £90million. More have to be down to search out and take down these catfishing crooks for good and assist supplied to victims of merciless fraudsters.