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Sam Bright
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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Very Inefficient Process: Watchdog Exposes Government’s PPE Failures
The National Audit Office has produced more shocking statistics on the £13 billion of contracts awarded to personal protective equipment suppliers, reports Sam Bright

EXCLUSIVE Chancellor Rishi Sunak in New Financial Connection to Russia
Sam Bright explores the links between a firm owned by Sunak’s wife and a Russian billionaire

EXCLUSIVE Roof Collapsed in Vaccines Manufacturing Centre
Sam Bright investigates the concerns of a whistleblower who says that the UK’s flagship vaccines manufacturing hub is shrouded in secrecy

EXCLUSIVE Human Rights Problem Countries Receive Two-Thirds of UK Military Export Licenses Since 2010
Sam Bright digs into the data to reveal the billions of pounds of lethal equipment sold by the UK to questionable regimes

EXCLUSIVE UK Trade With Human Rights Problem Countries Increased by 36% After Brexit
As Boris Johnson prepares to schmooze Saudi Arabia, Sam Bright reports on the UK’s growing trade relationships with despotic regimes

How Levelling Up, Brexit and the Ukraine War are Intertwined
Sam Bright explores how Brexit has exposed Britain to the reverberations of the war in Ukraine

EXCLUSIVE A Golden Ticket: 2,000 Oligarchs from Countries with Human Rights Concerns ‘Buy’ Permanent Right to Live in UK
Between 2010 and 2020, 65% of the foreign investors granted permanent UK residency were from China and Russia, reports Sam Bright

EXCLUSIVE Government Didn’t Record Minutes of Meeting Between Lebedev and Johnson
A now-infamous meeting between the Prime Minister and his Russian ally was not recorded by officials, Sam Bright reports
EXCLUSIVE Wife of Arms Deal Broker Donates £300,000 to Conservatives
The elite Conservative donor has now given more than £1.7 million to the party in recent years, reports Sam Bright
The Ukraine War Has Exposed the UK’s Russia Delusion
Successive governments have chased Russian roubles while ignoring geopolitical reality, reports Sam Bright
EXCLUSIVE Stuck in Limbo: UK Asylum and Immigration System in Post-Brexit Turmoil
The UK’s floundering border arrangements offer little solace to desperate Ukrainians fleeing war, reports Sam Bright