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© REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool FILE PHOTO A New York Times investigation into the UK's handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it "one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain's postwar era." The report, titled 'Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending', was published on Thursday. In it, the Times says that "about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy." The newspa...

Workers Revolutionary Party NHS staff, including nurses, marching for a massive pay rise to match the risk and the quality of care they are providing A NEW YORK Times investigation into the UK’s handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it ‘one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain’s postwar era.’ The report, titled ‘Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending’, was published on Thursday. In it, the NY Times alleges that ‘about $11 bill...

who went through the public process were awarded contracts. Source: National Audit Office Report. The government did not carry out systematic company checks, including for potential conflicts of interest, until it had already spent nearly $2 billion, auditors found. Officials did not always document who recommended a company or why it was awarded a contract. One company in the V.I.P. lane was an investment firm, Ayanda Capital, where a man named Andrew Mills served as a senior board adviser while also working for a government body, the Board of Trade. While it is not clear what role Mr. ...

Follow RT on A New York Times investigation into the UK’s handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it “one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain’s postwar era.” The report, titled ‘Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending’, was published on Thursday. In it, the Times says that “about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy.” According to ...

Why is the UK media not doing this? Besides a few notable exceptions, the money spent by the Tory Government in procuring PPE, coronavirus tests, ventilators and other critical supplies has failed to garner widespread media attention. In an article headlined “Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain’s Pandemic Spending”, the US newspaper analyses about 1200 government contracts which have been made public and are worth close to $22 billion overall. It found that roughly $11bn of that money went to companies “run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservativ...