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Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid responseDominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s …
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under ToriesDominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Bori…
Firm was ordered by high court to return sum paid by DHSC for unusable surgical gowns by 4pm on WednesdayA company linked to the former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has failed to pay the government any of the £122m ordered by a high court judgment f…
Daniel Evans says young drama graduates who learned voice work online missed out on the physical presence of theatre trainingYoung actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are struggling to project their voices and lack rangebecause they …
The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the fundsThe five-year unravelling of Britain’s most high-profile Covid contracts scandal involving a baro…
Academy trust head Jon Coles says he nearly fell off his chair when Gavin Williamson said no plan was in placeThe leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school …
Mone hits out at Kemi Badenoch after Tory leader says PPE Medpro scandal has brought shame on partyMichelle Mone has said she has “no wish” to return to the House of Lords as a Conservative peer after a company linked to her was ordered to repay millio…
Case against Michelle Mone-linked company showed pressure to award contracts to those with political connectionsUK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPEOpening the high-stakes trial in a workaday, office-…
Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’VIP lanes and 25m faulty gowns: what PPE Medro trial reveals about Tory response to CovidThe government has won its lega…
Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schoolsThe Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its im…