Chancellor says overall government won’t face cuts in real terms before key conference speech
As we reported overnight, Rachel Reeves will use her conference speech this afternoon to confirm the government is appointing a Covid corruption commissioner to recover money lost on dodgy PPE contracts. Jolyon Maugham, who runs the Good Law Project, a campaigning group that has done much to expose favouritism and malpractice in the awarding of Covid contracts through the legal battles it has been fighting, is not impressed.
Given the complexity - and number - of suspect contracts, I don’t see how this job gets delivered 2-3 days a week for one year. Tragically it shows all the signs of being set up to fail. Multiple sources say Cabinet Office was opposed to the appointment of a Commissioner - yes, the same Cabinet Office as ran the VIP lane during the pandemic - and from the job ad it looks like Cabinet Office won that fight.
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