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Sam Bright is Byline Times’ Investigations Editor and the author of Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country From its Capital.
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EXCLUSIVE Minutes of Boris Johnson Meeting with Cambridge Analytica ‘Would Directly Undermine Trust Between the UK and US’
UK-US relations would be harmed by the details of Johnson’s summit with the now-disgraced data firm, an independent regulator has concluded

EXCLUSIVE Nadhim Zahawi’s Tory Leadership Bid Funded by Offshore-Linked Investor
The then-Chancellor was given more than £60,000 by an individual listed in the Paradise Papers

‘Farcical’: Government Slammed for Pledging Millions in ‘Levelling Up’ Funding to Tackle Dover Brexit Queues
Money promised to deprived areas after Brexit is instead being used to deal with the aftershocks of leaving the EU, reports Sam Bright

EXCLUSIVE Special Investigation: The Vested Private Interests Behind Westminster’s Influential Lobbying Groups
Sam Bright investigates a murky aspect of our political system, where landlords fund private rental research and fossil fuel firms donate to environmental groups

EXCLUSIVE Senior Government Figures Meet with Lobbying Group Funded by Private Healthcare while NHS Crisis Continues
Sam Bright reports on the influence held by a parliamentary lobbying group backed by private health interests

The NHS and Brexit: What We Now Know
Sam Bright examines the contribution of Brexit to our current healthcare crisis

EXCLUSIVE Conservative Party Propped Up by Financiers, Property Developers and Fossil Fuel Interests
Bankers have contributed a-third of the party’s income over recent months, amid plans to remove the cap on their bonuses, reports Sam Bright

EXCLUSIVE ‘We Are Not Done’: Conservatives Remain in Thrall to Tufton Street
Sam Bright reports on the Conservative Party’s enduring alliance with the libertarian lobbying groups that ‘crashed the economy’
EXCLUSIVE MPs Advocate for NHS Privatisation While Being Funded by Private Health Firms
Sam Bright investigates how a parliamentary lobbying group on healthcare has been backed by private interests
Gove and Hancock Rewriting the Record With PPE ‘Bullying’ Claims
All the evidence indicates that senior Cabinet ministers facilitated the awarding of COVID contracts to favoured suppliers, reports Sam Bright
Gordon Brown: Government Most Corrupt in ‘At Least a Century’
Sam Bright inspects the former Prime Minister’s plans to rewire British politics
EXCLUSIVE British Private Schools Earn Millions Tax-Free from Schools in States that Criminalise Homosexuality
Sam Bright investigates the untaxed income earned by these schools in anti-LGBT states
EXCLUSIVE ‘VIP’ Firms Referred by Tory MPs and Peers for PPE Deals See Profits Soar
Hundreds of millions of pounds have been earned by companies channelled through the expedited procurement route by Conservative politicians, Sam Bright reports
Anatomy of the PPE Procurement Scandal
Sam Bright dissects the multi-billion-pound affair that saw lucrative public contracts awarded to Conservative donors
EXCLUSIVE European Research Group Loses Two-Thirds of its Paid-Up Members
The hard-Brexit lobbying group, which produces research paid for by taxpayer-funded expenses, appears to be losing support
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