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BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy
The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.
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We’re planning to sue Ofgem over their price cap announcement. Here’s how & why 🧵(1/9)
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Boris may be hoping everyone’s forgotten about this but we’re pressing on with our legal action
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The Met seem to be operating a two-tier system, with one rule for those in power and one rule for everyone else. Enough. We're suing. glplive.org/cj-metpolice-tw
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BREAKING: The High Court has ruled Michael Gove broke the law in handing a public contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings at Public First.
The Court ruled a reasonable observer would think there was a real risk they won the contract because of favouritism.
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BREAKING: WE’VE WON - High Court rules Government acted unlawfully by failing to publish details of Covid-related contracts.
@Debbie_abrahams @CarolineLucas @LaylaMoran rebrand.ly/uc-win-1902
THREAD:
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Matt Hancock thought he could hide behind redacted documents. Luckily we kept the receipts.
RT so everyone knows.
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Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement.
They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent.
But we think there is.
Agree? Support us here:
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BREAKING: High Court finds Government PPE ‘VIP’ lane for politically connected suppliers ‘unlawful’ 🚨
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Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement.
They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent.
But we think there is.
Agree? Support us here:
goodlaw.social/kgb
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#DowningStreetParties
ALT image of Cressida Dick with the text 'The Met Police must do their job and investigate properly'
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BREAKING: Government says it might not be able to retrieve Whatsapp and text messages relating to lucrative contracts because Lord Bethell "replaced" his phone. SHARE if you think it's high time politicians used proper channels for Government business ✊ glplive.org/bethell-phone
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👀The High Court has ruled that the Government’s appointment of Dido Harding and Mike Coupe to senior emergency healthcare jobs without competition was unlawful 👀
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Not a wordle, just Sue Gray’s report
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Well, well, well. Liz Truss raised £500,000 for bid to be leader. Now it’s revealed more than half came from hedge fund bosses, venture capitalists and other City financiers. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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“A High Court judge today ordered Matt Hancock to hand over texts and WhatsApp messages about lucrative Covid-19 contracts” | Mirror mirror.co.uk/news/politics/g…
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The law says we are all equal. And the Metropolitan Police need to apply it - including to Government.
ALT Image of Cressida Dick with text saying: The Met's role is to investigate crime
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🚨We've won another freedom of information battle with Government.
Remember the story of Matt Hancock and Alex Bourne, the publican turned medical equipment supplier? ⤵️
DHSC have now been ordered to reply to our request for a copy of all WhatsApp messages between the pair.👀
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It’s not just @borisjohnson - all members of his Cabinet are responsible for the mistakes that have been made. A (non-exhaustive) list of times they’ve broken the law⬇️
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RT if you won't accept #OneRuleForThem
ALT Black text with yellow underline saying: 'We will not accept one rule for them' With Good Law Project logo underneath.
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Campaign group the Good Law Project has issued formal legal proceedings against the force over its failure to investigate the parties, accusing police of “deferring to the powerful”. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
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We're bringing legal action➡️glplive.org/Met-Must-Investi…
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🚨 This is a story that everyone in the country should hear.
In collaboration with @ByDonkeys. Location Parliament.
Led By Donkeys
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NEW: based on the current evidence the Met's decision not to investigate the notorious Downing Street garden party on 20 May 2020 is likely to be 'unlawful'.
We've written tonight threatening to judicially review their failure⬇️glplive.org/met-police-13012…
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🤯 The £37bn spent on test and trace is more than it is estimated it will cost to vaccinate the world. Where on earth did it go? theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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A PPE supplier in business for more than 20 years was ignored by government at the height of the pandemic last year while a venture capitalist firm was deemed an “urgent VIP case” because it came with a recommendation.
Our hearing continues at 10.30am. thetimes.co.uk/article/ppe-s…
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If the Met won’t investigate clear evidence of Boris Johnson selling peerages for cash we plan to ask the Court to make them.
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Explosive emails revealed at the High Court today show the shambolic nature of the Government's testing programme... 🧵(1/10)
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NEW: Emails show Matt Hancock attended two secret meetings with firms who won millions in Covid contracts. This information was NOT included in Government's updated list of declared meetings
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Not one but two ministers have now been found to have broken the law on procurement. It’s a vindication of what Good Law Project has been saying for months: this is institutionalized cronyism.
And we think there's more to come. Sign up for updates: glplive.org/subscribe-0906
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Just when you think you've seen it all. 'Boris Johnson is to strip the Electoral Commission of the power to prosecute law-breaking'. Government claims it...'wastes public money' 🤯 independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins.
That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
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BREAKING: Government’s net zero strategy has been ruled inadequate and unlawful by the High Court.
The illegality of its landmark climate change strategy is a huge political embarrassment to Ministers. 🧵
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We're pleased to announce that the High Court has said our claim against the Government over billions of pounds worth of unpublished Covid contracts is "clearly arguable".
We're going to court.
@Debbie_abrahams @LaylaMoran @CarolineLucas
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🚨 NEW: the names of those who referred Covid testing firms into the “VIP” lane have been revealed... and there's some familiar faces involved.
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Thérèse Coffey’s resigned as environment minister. In her resignation letter, she said “I am proud to have delivered for people, the planet and prosperity [...] Turning ambition into action and delivery has been the hallmark of my service.”
So what did she deliver
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NEW: We are today issuing formal proceedings against the Met Police for its apparent continued failure to investigate the PM's attendance at three lockdown gatherings, and its refusal to answer basic questions. goodlawproject.org/news/new-…
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We don’t think the Government should use public money to rescue its former prime minister from an investigation ordered by the House. Do you agree?
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NEW: Government admits 46 PPE deals were awarded to 'VIPs' before formal due diligence process put in place - directly contradicting Michael Gove's claims
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We believe the Met Police's failure to investigate the #DowningStreetParties is unlawful. We're suing.
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Last Friday, we warned Government if they appointed Dacre to Ofcom through a rigged recruitment process we'd take legal action.....This Friday 👇👇
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ALT “At the heart of the legal action is a simple ask: that Boris Johnson be subject to the same law as you and me. And if there's reason to think he has broken it he gets investigated by the police, just like you and I would." - Jo Maugham Director of Good Law Project
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We believe the Met have failed to investigate the Prime Minister properly.
We want to make sure that they do... ⬇️
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Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges to PPE procurement.
They’ve said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent.
But we think there is.
Agree? Support us here:
goodlaw.social/kgb
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"If you deliberately destroy evidence or break your phone... it's very possible that you're committing the criminal offence of perverting the course of justice"
- @JolyonMaugham on @LBC
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Judge rules that ex-health secretary Matt Hancock must have his private WhatsApp and emails searched in court battle over awarding of coronavirus testing contracts dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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We think Mone might be just the tip of the iceberg.
Wonder why Michael Gove was so quick to try to discredit us this week? 🧐
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“I've had enough of talentless people, putting their tick in the right box, not because it's in the national interest but because it's in their own personal interest."
Dan Johnson
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Our thoughts on the #MiniBudget
💰This is a budget for the rich
😓Working people will suffer
🚫Literally nobody voted for this
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The Government wasted over £10bn on unusable or unused PPE during the Covid pandemic – and lots of that money went to ministers’ mates.
No-one should be above the law. We want to make sure they’re held to account.
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💥 NEW: The government has been ordered to reveal to us the details of Rishi Sunak’s dealings with a hedge fund he founded, which made huge profits during the pandemic after it invested heavily in vaccine manufacturer, Moderna ⬇️
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BREAKING: new Court Order handed down in last hour shows Boris Johnson misled Parliament over Covid contracts.
You can read the Court Order and consequential judgment in full here. rebrand.ly/uc-update-0503
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His premiership may be drawing to a close, but it’s not just @borisjohnson - all members of his Cabinet are responsible for the mistakes that have been made.
A (non-exhaustive) list of times they’ve broken the law ⬇️🧵
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Last night, 250 Conservative MPs voted to rip up the rules to protect one of their own. This is truly shocking, but it's also not surprising. It might seem Government sleaze is becoming the norm - but we're determined not to let it… THREAD ⬇️ (1/8)
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The law says we are all equal. ‘Great’ and ‘small’ alike, subject to the same laws. That’s what the law says - and the Met police need to apply it. We’ve sent a letter telling them we will sue if they refuse to investigate No 10 parties goodlawproject.org/news/tory…
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The PPE scandal’s not over yet.
The Government wasted over £10bn on unusable or unused PPE – and lots of that money went to ministers’ mates.
No-one should be above the law. We want to make sure they’re held to account.
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Full details: glplive.org/VIPLane-Judgemen…
ALT “Never again should any Government treat a public health crisis as an opportunity to enrich its associates and donors at public expense.” - Jo Maugham, Director of Good Law Project
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💥NEW: We’re helping @TheNewEuropean sue Michelle Mone💥
The newspaper has spent thousands of pounds defending legal action from Michelle Mone over its coverage of the PPE Medpro scandal. Now we’re going to help get it back. ⬇️
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🚨NEW: The Tory government shelled out £114,000,000 in payouts to companies for undelivered and cancelled Covid contracts.
💷86% of this money was handed to firms linked with senior Tory figures.
🔎Read our latest investigation with @MC_00_ below⬇️
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REVEALED: the politicians who referred companies to the PPE “VIP Lane”.
Share so everyone knows.
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"It is intolerable, and we should not tolerate, the operation of separate criminal justice systems, a soft one for those with power and influence and a harsher one for those without." glplive.org/met-police-13012…
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These are our asks of @MattHancock - we will halt our slate of procurement challenges if he agrees to them.
We think they are reasonable requests to protect taxpayers' money. Will he agree, and if not, why not?
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TODAY: we’re in Court battling Government over millions of pounds of unusable PPE and the fast track ‘VIP lane’ for political connections.
They’d rather we weren’t paying attention. Help spread the word. actions.goodlawproject.org/s…
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🚨WE WON: Government commits to publishing £248m missing Covid contracts after breaching transparency guidelines
Read about our latest victory here ⤵️
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ICYMI: Nadine Dorries has not backed down – so we’re launching full legal proceedings 💪
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💣 NEW 💣
Today, we can reveal that the director of Luxe Lifestyle – a firm that bagged a £25.7m PPE contract during Covid, when it had zero employees and a huge debt – has been arrested.
We’ve been pushing for this for five years: goodlaw.social/09d7
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Conservative MP Owen Paterson may have now resigned, but Government’s behaviour in the past week has been truly appalling. Our democracy is under threat.
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We have instructed Counsel to look at Government's potential misuse of public money for party political advertising. We expect to send a pre-action protocol letter shortly - which we will publish.
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Why does public money keep ending up in the pockets of Dominic Cummings' mates? We're determined to find out
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💥NEWS JUST IN:
The Information Commissioner has now ordered the Government to provide us a response on this by no later than 9th August. Watch this space....
For over a year, we've trying to uncover the politically-connected firms that benefitted from the Government’s £37 billion Test and Trace programme...
Now, it looks like they'll have to come clean ⬇️
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No wonder the Government wanted to keep details of ‘VIP lane’ quiet.
ALT "The scale of public money that flowed into the pockets of those able to lean on Ministers for VIP lane treatment is just breathtaking"
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We can reveal new documents suggesting that both Boris Johnson’s controversial adviser Munira Mirza and the Home Secretary Priti Patel intervened to help middlemen win two enormous contracts.
Read the extraordinary story. ⬇️ goodlawproject.org/patel-mir…
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NEW: Met Police refusing to investigate No 10 gatherings likely to be unlawful
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We want to degrade the whole ugly Tufton Street infrastructure - bring it into the light and force it to comply with the law.
RT if you stand with us
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The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.
It only took 48 hours for the Royal Courts of Justice to scrub out a @Banksy showing a judge striking down a protester with his gavel.
Silencing a work of art about silencing protest? Maybe it was a little too close to home.
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🚨NEW: We’ve written to the Met, giving them one last chance to explain their position - otherwise we'll be left with no option but to issue formal proceedings against them.
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For over a year, we've been trying to uncover the politically-connected firms that benefitted from the Government’s £37 billion Test and Trace programme...
This week we found out it looks like they'll have to come clean ⬇️
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BREAKING: overnight Government snuck out its VIP list. We can reveal this list includes 50 names – rather than the 47 leaked to Politico – and includes three more significant Conservative Party figures. Including Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.
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The deeper we dig, the more we uncover. We will continue to expose the PPE procurement scandal.
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NEW🔎📂🗄️
We’re working on a trove of never-before-published material which reveals the staggering scale of the cronyism behind pandemic procurement and the PPE scandal.
Follow us and @carolvorders as we open up THE VIP FILES 🗄️📂🔍
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BREAKING: New emails reveal Government used taxpayers’ money to conduct political polling. Hanbury were paid to poll on key opposition figures, including Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan. Find out more 👇
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‘Some were told “they would lose funding for their constituency” if they failed to toe the line.’
If true, this is a serious abuse of public money. ft.com/content/51c93ba3-4a59…
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“We have relied for too long on a Victorian ideal of what we used to call decent chaps doing the right thing... We have got to the point where we need a serious written constitution." independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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“£200,000 was spent on legal fees for a case that didn’t need to happen because you could have simply said “yes, we were in breach”.
Peter Stefanovic
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We can now reveal that Michael Gove and Cabinet Office Minister Lord Agnew referred six firms down a fast track ‘VIP’ route to bid for lucrative Test and Trace contracts 🤨 glplive.org/vip-tw-1510
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Last week Government quietly snuck out 40 further PPE contracts - published a year late - worth an eye-watering £4.2 billion.
Boris Johnson claimed in February that details of all PPE contracts “were on the record“. Something is very wrong indeed. glplive.org/sccl
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We're disappointed that the Supreme Court has refused to hear our challenge against the decision to let Michael Gove off the hook, after he awarded an £840,000 pandemic contract without competition to his and Dominic Cummings’ associates at Public First.
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THREAD: Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended 👀🧵 (1/12)
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Matt Hancock thought he could hide behind redacted documents. Luckily we kept the receipts.
RT so everyone knows.
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NEW: We've launched a legal challenge over Boris Johnson's decision to hand Tory donor Peter Cruddas a peerage.
businessinsider.com/boris-jo…
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