Rachel Oldroyd

RT @david_conn: BREAKING: Government has sued PPE Medpro, the company linked to Conservative peer Michelle Mone, for the full £122m it paid…

Thought you’d read the full story of Michelle Mone and PPE contracts? Not until you’ve read the latest from @david_conn. It’s full of extraordinary new details https://t.co/5cTb3o7LWI

Yet more revelations about how Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied for covid contracts - this time for a second company secretly connected to her husband https://t.co/MYWPoQ1yk8

RT @PaulLewis: A representative for Mone accused the neighbours of “making up lies”, adding: “Baroness Mone does not own a home in London a…

Well deserved.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @TBIJ

Our Aziz Fellow @MisbahSK_ has been hired as @TBIJ’s Antimicrobial Resistance Reporter 🎉 🗣️ “I am thrilled to be continuing the Bureau’s legacy of groundbreaking reporting on antimicrobial resistance” https://t.co/QCoozOc9jl

RT @louisetickle: Finally, and hugely welcome – the new reporting rules for the family court reporting pilot are up on the @JudiciaryUK web…

RT @TBIJ: 📢 Last night, Thurrock council's leader apologised for spending tens of thousands of pounds and three years fighting @TBIJ's requ…

RT @MeirionTweets: 3 years ago @Gareth_Davies09 spotted there was something fishy in Thurrock's accounts & asked to see the accounts. Thurr…

Latest on Thurrock disaster from @TBIJ suggests finance director ignored advice around investments. Is this the biggest scandal in local authority finances? https://t.co/RQxuoSWESm

Perhaps the biggest scandal in the mess that is Thurrock council is that @Gareth_Davies09 has reported on the scale of investments for two years. His reporting was not only ignored but the council also spent thousands on lawyers to stop him getting at full extent of problem.

The scale of the losses at Thurrock council are jaw dropping. Full details of the shocking and outrageous investments that have led to the biggest ever black hole in a council budget revealed by @TBIJ https://t.co/zRA3n1AvQt

RT @Gareth_Davies09: BREAKING: Thurrock Council reveals £500m black hole caused by failed investments - the biggest funding gap ever report…

The story my former colleague @Gareth_Davies09 has spent 2 years chipping away at. Thurrock hampered his work the whole way https://t.co/YajPbL81x0

And here’s latest on Michelle Mone investigation @guardian

David Conn @david_conn

PPE Medpro: Michelle Mone-linked firm declines to say how it would repay millions if told to do so; Government paid £122m for PPE that was never used and is trying to recoup cash; company says the gowns passed inspection and it's entitled to the money. https://t.co/r7KyERmBGy

More on peer Michelle Mone and HSBC report which froze accounts over “corruption” allegations relating to her links with PPE firm that she referred to government. Follows on from @david_conn’s reporting this week in @guardian

Financial Times @FT

HSBC froze accounts linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone during corruption probe https://t.co/iVBdQi2zmV

RT @TBIJ: 🔴 NEW INVESTIGATION Swimming in superbugs: MRSA and E coli found in British rivers 🔗 https://t.co/7jT2WNcDHK https://t.co/pQsXSc…

RT @Direthoughts: MPs across house condemn what one called ‘sickening, shameful’ disclosures about Covid procurement https://t.co/JapVLeTKxT