David Conn
Correspondent at The Guardian
Investigations correspondent for the Guardian. Author: The Fall of the House of Fifa https://t.co/XqtqVaT3c1 .
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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | David Conn
Police have destroyed documents relating to the Battle of Orgreave in 1984 during the miners’ strike, which is the subject of a forthcoming official inquiry. Northumbria police disposed of the papers less than a month before Rishi Sunak called last summer’s election, which brought the Labour party into government with a longstanding manifesto pledge to hold an inquiry into the scenes of violent policing at Orgreave.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | David Conn
Personal protective equipment supplied by a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone did not meet required safety standards and “could seriously harm or kill patients” if used, the UK government has argued in court. Opening a high court trial for the Department of Health and Social Care, Paul Stanley KC said that the company, PPE Medpro, had not complied with technical manufacturing processes to ensure that the 25m surgical gowns it provided were sterile.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | David Conn |Esther Opoku-Gyeni |Nicola Alexandrou |Nicole Jackson
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: After 32 years of establishment lies, media smears, inquests, trials and retrials, the families of the Hillsborough dead have yet to see anyone held accountable
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Mar 27, 2025 |
theguardian.com | David Conn
A Conservative peer who introduced a company he was involved in to the government to supply PPE is under investigation for the third time for potential breaches of the rules governing members’ conduct in the House of Lords. The new investigation follows the publication by the Covid-19 public inquiry of text messages and emails sent by Peter Gummer, whose peerage title is Lord Chadlington, introducing the company, SG Recruitment.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
theguardian.com | David Conn
The independent peer Lord Darzi, a senior adviser to the government on the NHS, failed to officially declare shareholdings in healthcare companies worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Ara Darzi is an eminent surgeon and professor at Imperial College London whose report on the NHS for the government in September informed the decision announced last week by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, to abolish NHS England.
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Phil Hammond, extraordinary fighter for truth and justice after the Hillsborough disaster, has died. Phil and his wife Hilda’s son Philip, 14, was one of the 97 people unlawfully killed. Phil chaired the Hillsborough Family Support Group for many years. A wonderful man, RIP.
@HillsboroughSu1 All at LFC are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Phil Hammond. He lost his 14-year-old son Philip at Hillsborough, went on to become Chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group and helped lead the fight for justice for the 97. RIP Phil. YNWA ❤️
RT @LFC: @HillsboroughSu1 All at LFC are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Phil Hammond. He lost his 14-year-old son Philip at Hill…
