Role for former Conservative chairman and corporate lobbyist Andrew Feldman prompts fresh concerns about privileged access given to Tory 'friends and donors'
Richard Cook signed an oil deal with a Texan company run by a convicted fraudster. The Scottish company involved has gone bust, owing creditors more than £4.5 million
‘Disillusioned’ Institute of Economic Affairs advisor criticises hard Brexit think tank – while new documents show it privately benefited from furlough scheme it publicly attacked.
As Serco's share price soars, government accused of "shovelling huge sums of public money to a handful of outsourcing companies without competition, rigour or accountability".
Stroud councillor Steve Dechan ran a small, loss-making firm distributing medical devices. Documents show it signed a £156m deal to import PPE from China
UK elections watchdog alerted staff to 'interesting donations' from Lubov Chernukhin – and queried other Tory Russian donations. Opposition MPs call for action.
Hays Travel has banned staff from speaking to the media about Serco’s heavily-criticised COVID-19 operations – but some have raised the alarm over lack of training and poor treatment
Prime minister met Evgeny Lebedev’s company days after telling the British public to avoid ‘non-essential contact’. Johnson later nominated Lebedev for the House of Lords
