Boris Johnson's Crony Contracts

Sam Bright reports on the latest Government contract awarded to a firm that has funded the Conservative Party

A senior member of Baroness Dido Harding’s team has joined a company previously awarded £140 million in COVID-19 contracts – and will be able to begin lobbying her former colleagues sooner than the rules usually allow

As a shortage of laptops ostracises children from education, Sam Bright reports on new contracts awarded to a company with Tory ties

There are more private sector consultants working for Baroness Dido Harding’s operation than civil servants working for the Treasury, reveals Sam Bright

Sam Bright investigates the trends that underpin the Government’s outpouring of contracts to corporate giants and friends of the regime

Byline Times and The Citizens catalogue the 12 most notorious contracts awarded to private sector firms during the Coronavirus pandemic so far

Sam Bright has the inside track on a new Government hiring blitz and its attempts to oust expensive, controversial consultancy giants

A small carpeting supplier has been contracted again by the Government, having already being awarded deals for personal protective equipment worth £5.3 million

The chairman of the healthcare firm is the former business partner of Matt Hancock’s mum and step-father

Sam Bright speaks to the owner of a naval design firm about how he acquired a contract to supply face masks – who also appears to reject the consensus of scientists and officials on the Coronavirus pandemic

The professional services giant Deloitte is being employed to help the Government to interpret and implement its own ‘Outsourcing Playbook’

The majority of protective equipment bought by the Government still hasn’t arrived, the National Audit Office has revealed

Dominic Cummings failed to reform the procurement process, and in doing so exposed his hollow intellectual posturing, argues Sam Bright

After facing criticism for its work during the pandemic, the outsourcing giant is set to be paid millions of pounds more to assist the post-Coronavirus clean-up operation, reports Sam Bright

David Hencke's analysis of the Government's Town Fund scheme suggests politically motivated deals that paid off in the 2019 General Election

A new National Audit Office report – which found that the Government established a ‘high-priority’ lane for PPE suppliers with political links – does little to dispel the notion of cronyism at the heart of the Boris Johnson administration, explains Sam Bright

MP alleges ‘special treatment’ as two former Vote Leave chiefs were drafted in by Matt Hancock’s department, reports Sam Bright

Sophie Hill explains how she found the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings at the centre of her vast interactive map of Government contracts

A Miami-based firm owned by a jewellery entrepreneur has been awarded UK PPE deals worth hundreds of millions, reports Sam Bright

The Prime Minister was finally forced to answer questions about his Government’s controversial, multi-billion-pound splurge on private sector contracts, reports Sam Bright