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Private health giant nets £40m gross profit and pays director £621,000

Private health giant nets £40m gross profit and pays director £621,000

Healthcare business that was once owned by Richard Branson cashes in from NHS contracts
Martin Williams 12 Jan 2023
Revealed: Truss-allied think tank met dozens of MPs prior to leadership win

Revealed: Truss-allied think tank met dozens of MPs prior to leadership win

Institute of Economic Affairs boasted of access to parliamentarians in run-up to Liz Truss’s ill-fated premiership
Adam Bychawski 11 Jan 2023
Government won’t rule out plugging NHS holes with retired medics

Government won’t rule out plugging NHS holes with retired medics

Number 10 could consider repeating pandemic measure as spokesperson vows to ‘consider all options’
Ruby Lott-Lavigna 10 Jan 2023
Five political decisions that drove the NHS to the brink

Five political decisions that drove the NHS to the brink

NHS wait lists are bursting at the seams. From austerity to privatising social care, this is how we got here
Adam Bychawski 10 Jan 2023
Bereaved families ‘increasingly marginalised’ in Covid-19 inquiry

Bereaved families ‘increasingly marginalised’ in Covid-19 inquiry

Bereaved Covid families believed they would be at the heart of the inquiry. Instead they say they are being silenced
Ruby Lott-Lavigna 09 Jan 2023
Government energy adviser quits BP after ‘conflict of interest’ fears revealed

Government energy adviser quits BP after ‘conflict of interest’ fears revealed

Peter Mather was appointed to the government’s BEIS board despite being paid to chair a BP shareholders’ group
Adam Bychawski 04 Jan 2023
Secret files reveal how UN climate advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

Secret files reveal how UN climate advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

Exclusive: US inquiry unearths pro-gas PR strategy produced by firm ‘at core of global climate effort’
Lucas Amin, Ben Webster 15 Dec 2022

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