Whatever happened to the Covid Corruption Commissioner?

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Jenrick came as no surprise. THAT one should be shouted from the roof tops. Kudos to you and your fellow journalists for being so dogged on this. That VIP lane stinks. Should be called Rancid Lane.

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As Transparency International's @duncanhames.bsky.social says “the public have right to know who was fast-tracked [to VIP Lane] and on whose say-so. "Five years of resisting disclosure has been a prolonged and unnecessary failure of transparency, and it has only deepened the damage to public trust"

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Matt Hancock is named as referring 27 firms, Lord Feldman 21 and Lord Agnew 14 There's also Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, who referred a small pharmaceutical company that was dissolved in 2022 Santander sent a dozen firms to VIP lane Non-Tory politicians referred 5 firms. None won contracts

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- Eight members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet referred firms to VIP lane, four of these ministers haven't been named before - Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart, and Robert Jenrick Firms in the VIP lane were 10 times more likely to win contracts, according to the National Audit Office.

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