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Billionaire tax exile and Tory party donor Lord Ashcroft
by Lamiat Sabin
Parliamentary Reporter
CONSERVATIVES were blasted over their “cronyism” today after a firm owned by billionaire tax exile Lord Ashcroft was awarded a £350 million contract to provide temporary Covid-19 testing staff.
The Tory donor’s company Medacs was awarded the contract to provide locum medics and workers for “laboratories or to assist the national testing programme in response to Covid-19,” documents show.
The lucrative Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) contract was seen by the Morning Star after it was published on Tuesday.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES