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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

David Hencke with more detail on the Government contract with Palantir and the involvement of the data science team behind the Vote Leave campaign

The public service broadcaster’s new figurehead is a prolific Conservative Party donor, reports Sam Bright

A lack of online access exacerbates an existing equality gap between children in disadvantaged communities and their wealthier counterparts, reports Sian Norris

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

Firms from around the world have decided to end deliveries to the UK rather than register with the country for VAT after regulations – which received next to no scrutiny by Parliament – became law last month

Nadhim Zahawi’s wife and two sons have established a new company called ‘Warren Medical Limited’