Fact

Paul Dempsey looks at the debt burden, failed leadership and the pursuit of shareholder value over stakeholder support which will continue to haunt the business of football

Sam Bright reveals the Australian businessman had access to dozens of senior Government procurement officials at a single briefing

Political donations from registered lobbying firms – which aim to influence government policy – have clustered around the governing party since 2015

Sam Bright reports that major departments have failed to log the interests of their non-executive directors

Sam Bright reports how a former Downing Street director of communications, a diplomat and an ex-First Minister of Wales all have ties to the company that worked in tandem with Greensill

UK law enforcement can no longer immediately access real-time data about persons and objects of interest, including wanted and missing persons

A new Government deal raises further questions about the Government’s approach to conflict of interest transparency

After months of pressure, more responsibility has been handed to local contact tracers, reports Sam Bright

Rebecca Hilsenrath appears to be the only senior figure in Whitehall to have resigned over an apparent violation of Coronavirus restrictions, David Hencke reports

For fear of upsetting the newspaper, the Government removed a rebuttal of one of its stories, Freedom of Information requests reveal

David Hencke reports how the Government’s distribution of ‘levelling up’ funds is being contested by the Good Law Project for not being on the level

The department has said it bought clothes in Primark for asylum seekers who would not have had appropriate clothing when arriving in the UK

There are ongoing frustrations about Whitehall’s hands-off approach to the Grenfell recovery process, reports Sam Bright

£900 at a pub in Oxford; £5,400 in Primark. Sam Bright questioned Priti Patel’s department about some peculiar purchases, but received an unconvincing answer

The Cabinet Office Minister has been pilloried for failing to appear before a parliamentary committee that has been investigating the Government’s lockdown decisions

The Tory peer and senior Cabinet Office official appears to have benefitted financially from a firm that has won millions in public sector contracts

The English Defence League founder turned up at the home of a journalist who was planning to write an article about him, the court heard

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a toxic narrative is permeating British government and media to create an increasingly mainstream white nationalist echo chamber

NHS Professionals has apologised to prospective non-healthcare vaccinators, who undertook hours of training yet haven’t been able to find work

The Department for Education has made it clear that the head of the review will face funding constraints and operate under the watchful gaze of Government officials, reports Sam Bright