Thursday, September 10, 2020

If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough | George Monbiot

Fortunes are being made by political favourites, while London’s money laundering fuels corruption across the planet

Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. The government has discovered that it can bluster through any scandal. No minister need resign. No one need apologise. No one need explain.

As public outrage grows over the billions of pounds of coronavirus contracts issued by the government without competition, it seems determined only to award more of them. Never mind that the consulting company Deloitte, whose personnel circulate in and out of government, has been strongly criticised for the disastrous system it devised to supply protective equipment to the NHS. It has now been granted a massive new contract to test the population for Covid-19.

Related: Cummings ally's PR firm given Covid-19 contracts without tenders

Related: UK must crack down on dirty money after Russia report, says Labour

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