Chancellor appoints Covid corruption commissioner

Parliament's standards commissioner is urged to probe Keir Starmer's corruption minister Tulip Siddiq - over claims she and her family took £4 billion in bribes for Putin-funded nuclear power plant

Parliament's standards commissioner was last night urged to probe Tulip Siddiq after the Treasury minister was named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh. ‘Without proper clarification and transparency from Ms Siddiq, I feel that she risks bringing her position, and the wider House, into significant disrepute.’ Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission has launched the probe into Ms Siddiq over the alleged embezzlement …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Cabinet minister hints at ‘strong set’ of new Labour peers

The Independent

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Karnataka Covid 'scandal': FIR filed over alleged corruption in PPE, mask procurement

Hindustan Times

A case was lodged at Bengaluru's Vidhana Soudha Police Station on Friday over suspected irregularities in the management of Covid-19. the case was registered on a complaint by Medical Education Department Chief Accounts Officer Dr M Vishnu Prasad. According to a PTI report, the case was registered on a complaint by Medical Education Department Chief Accounts Officer Dr M Vishnu …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Payouts for infected blood scandal begin

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1 month, 1 week ago

Rachel Reeves faces calls to reveal whether she inadvertently tipped off a Labour MP with a 2,200-acre family estate about her crippling inheritance tax raid on farms

Daily Mail

The Chancellor is facing calls to reveal whether she inadvertently tipped off a Labour MP with a 2,200-acre family estate about her inheritance tax raid on farms. Mr Davies also queried the content of the ‘briefing sessions’ held with Labour MPs ahead of the Budget, and whether any information slipped out this way.’ Rachel Reeves has been urged to reveal …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Transport secretary Louise Haigh admits pleading guilty to offence over phone claim

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

What the papers say – November 26

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

SIT to further probe D’Cunha report on Karnataka Covid scam

New Indian Express

BENGALURU: In a major political development, the Congress government on Thursday indicated its reported plan to prosecute BJP leaders former chief minister BS Yediyurappa and former health minister B Sriramulu for their involvement in the alleged Covid scam in 2020. The cabinet resolved to set up a police Special Investigation Team with three officers headed by an IGP to further …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

COVID-19 scam: Karnataka cabinet decides to set up SIT for probing irregularities

Hindustan Times

The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to constitute a Special Investigation Team to probe the alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment and medicines during COVID19 pandemic when the BJP was in power in the state, based on the interim report submitted by Justice Michael D’Cunha Commission. '“After examining the interim report submitted by Justice Michael D’Cunha, the state cabinet …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Karnataka ministers seek action against Pralhad Joshi's remarks on Covid probe

India Today

Karnataka ministers Dinesh Gundu Rao and Krishna Byre Gowda submitted a memorandum to Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, appealing for action against Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, whom they accuse of trying to undermine a judicial inquiry into the corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic. The inquiry, led by Justice Michael D’Cunha, exposed significant corruption in the procurement of essential supplies, uncovering evidence of …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

BJP questions timing of report into Covid ‘scam’

Hindustan Times

Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party state president BY Vijayendra on Sunday accused the state government‘s attempt to implicate former chief minister BS Yediyurappa in the ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the Covid-19 procurement was a “politically motivated attempt” to ensure that the BJP leader did not campaign, fearing a possible electoral defeat. Vijayendra pointed out the incongruity in the …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Covid scam: Will prosecute BSY, Sudhakar and others, says CM Siddaramaiah

New Indian Express

ChIef Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that his government will act on the report of the Justice John Michael D’Cunha Commission, which was formed to investigate the alleged corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic under the BJP rule. Addressing the media here, Siddaramaiah confirmed that the state cabinet will soon discuss the commission’s report and the government would take steps to …

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2 months ago

Northern Land Council referred to national anti-corruption watchdog over COVID-19 grants

ABC

The administration of COVID-19 stimulus funding by one of Australia’s most powerful Aboriginal land councils has been referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog. Northern Land Council interim chief executive Jessie Schaecken told a Senate estimates hearing on Friday she had made the referral after making enquiries into the stimulus program. Stimulus referral ‘not aimed at specific people’ Accusations surrounding the …

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Treasury denies breaking law over ‘black hole’ in public finances

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2 months ago

Rachel Reeves gives top official vote of confidence in row over Budget black hole cover-up

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2 months ago

Reeves faces grilling by MPs over Budget measures

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2 months ago

Chris Philp’s history of gaffes as Tory MP appointed shadow home secretary

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2 months, 1 week ago

Union bosses want Reeves to pay compensation to miners who took on Thatcher

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2 months, 1 week ago

Watch: Starmer and Reeves speak after Labour’s £40bn tax-raising Budget

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2 months, 1 week ago

Watch: Office for Budget Responsibility responds to Rachel Reeves’ £40bn tax hikes

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2 months, 1 week ago

Corruption watchdog to reconsider its decision not to investigate Robodebt referrals

ABC

The National Anti-Corruption Commission has announced it will reconsider its decision not to investigate referrals from the Robodebt royal commission after finding the commissioner did not properly deal with a declared conflict of interest. Commissioner Paul Brereton declared he had a "close association" with one of the people referred to the NACC by the Robodebt royal commission, and so delegated …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Hoyle rebukes Chancellor Rachel Reeves over ‘premature disclosure’ of Budget

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why hundreds of Australians who lost their jobs because of Covid mandates could soon get their hands on a massive cash payout

Daily Mail

Hundreds of frontline emergency services workers could receive a massive cash payout after a class action lawsuit was launched against the Queensland government over Covid-19 vaccine mandates. 'We are standing up for the 300-plus police and paramedics seeking compensation from the State of Queensland due to many people losing their jobs, being injured by the COVID-19 vaccines and being unlawfully …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Streeting fiance’s £100,000 Labour HQ job sparks new cronyism row for Starmer

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Keir Starmer’s cabinet is rebelling – what took them so long?

The Independent

According to Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, “we’ve all had conversations – meetings, correspondence – as part of the usual Budget process”. So it is significant that Bloomberg reported that several cabinet ministers had written formally to the prime minister to protest about the cuts Rachel Reeves is asking them to make. As for ministers playing to the “higher public …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Rachel Reeves planning £3bn welfare cuts in Budget

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Businesses, motorists and pension savers brace for Budget bombshell amid fears Rachel Reeves is plotting biggest EVER tax-raising package

Daily Mail

Businesses, motorists and pension savers are braced for pain today amid fears Rachel Reeves could deliver one of the biggest ever tax-raising Budgets in a fortnight. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is preparing to unveil an eye-watering £40billion of tax hikes and spending cuts on October 30 Ms Reeves told the meeting that plans to fill what she has branded a '£22billion …

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3 months ago

Cabinet rebellion over Rachel Reeves’s cut to foreign aid budget

The Telegraph

Rachel Reeves’s plan to cut almost £2 billion from the foreign aid budget has sparked a Cabinet backlash, The Telegraph can reveal. Aid organisations, including the UK arm of the charity run by David Miliband, have warned that Ms Reeves’s plans will see the aid budget fall to a 17-year low and are lobbying ministers over the issue. ‘Iron grip’ …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Chancellor could be willing to alter non-dom plans, report suggests

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

PM to promise welfare fraud crackdown in bid to free up cash for public services

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Insurance commissioner defends homeowners plan blasted by consumer group

LA Times

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, right, talks with homeowner Bruce Breslau following a legislative oversight hearing held by the state insurance commissioner at LA City Hall. “Where are you going to come up with that?” Homeowner Bruce Breslau, second from right, attends a legislative oversight hearing held by the state insurance commissioner at LA City Hall. A Farmers spokesperson declined to …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

New TUC president named

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Covid inquiry returns to examine pandemic's impact on NHS workers and patients

Daily Mail

The Covid Inquiry is to resume and enter a new phase today where it will examine the impact of the pandemic on NHS workers, patients and the delivery of healthcare. The first public hearings of part three of the UK's Covid-19 Inquiry will be held on Monday, with leaders from the Health and Safety Executive and Unison expected to give …

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4 months ago

Watch: Chancellor Rachel Reeves questioned on Budget after Keir Starmer admitted it will be ‘painful’

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4 months ago

Govt to place report on alleged irregularities in Covid-19 management before Karnataka Cabinet

The Hindu

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the government of Karnataka will place the report submitted by Justice John Michael D’Cunha on alleged irregularities in COVID-19 management during the BJP regime at the next meeting of the Cabinet scheduled for September 5 to decide on the future course of action. Fielding queries from reporters in Mysuru on September 3, Mr Siddaramaiah said he …

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4 months, 1 week ago

BJP accuses Congress govt. of indulging in revenge politics by getting interim report on ‘irregularities’ in COVID management

The Hindu

The Opposition BJP termed the State government getting an interim report on alleged irregularities by the erstwhile party government in COVID-19 management as politics of revenge. Chickballapur MP and former Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Sunday accused the Congress government of indulging in revenge politics by “pressurising” retired judge John Michael D’Cunha to submit an interim report on the alleged …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Labour donor named in alleged cronyism row advises Chancellor on Treasury summit

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4 months, 1 week ago

Are the Tories right to accuse Labour of cronyism?

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been reported to the independent adviser on ministerial conduct by the Conservatives. Laura Trott, a Tory frontbencher and former Treasury minister best known for not understanding the national debt, claims Reeves’ appointment of Ian Corfield to be director of investment at the Treasury is cronyism. Trott says this represents a “clear conflict” between the donation and …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Labour cronyism row escalates as Tories demand investigation into donor’s appointment to Treasury

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tories demand investigation into Labour donor’s appointment to Civil Service job

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Sue Gray to blame for cronyism row’, Tories tell watchdog

The Telegraph

Oliver Newton, who has also joined the Treasury, was previously an adviser to Ms Reeves, while Haydon Etherington, a new senior adviser in the Ministry of Housing, was a Labour adviser whose parliamentary pass was Another appointment under scrutiny is that of Emily Middleton, a new director general at the Department for Science and Technology whose firm donated £67,000 to …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Brittany Higgins' husband David Sharaz could have avoided facing financial ruin in a few simple steps. Now he is looking at a mammoth payout...

Daily Mail

Brittany Higgins' husband David Sharaz could have avoided facing financial ruin if he apologised to Linda Reynolds over two tweets and agreed to three other demands, legal documents show. Lawyers acting for Liberal senator Linda Reynolds sent Mr Sharaz a concerns notice - which is the first step in a defamation claim - on January 6, 2023, over two social …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Former Tory minister Therese Coffey applied for job in Labour government

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Business Secretary ‘not worried’ about riots putting off foreign investors

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

U-turn on cabinet minister’s claim rioters will not be freed early

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5 months, 1 week ago

Chancellor’s deputy accused of hypocrisy over scrapping pensioners’ winter fuel payments

The Telegraph

The Chancellor’s deputy has been accused of hypocrisy after appearing to change his mind about scrapping winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. But last autumn Darren Jones, now the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said pensioners would be left “anxious” and “concerned” by any change to the payment system. Asked about Mr Jones’s comments, Ms Reeves told LBC’s Nick …

5 months, 1 week ago

Rachel Reeves set to unveil £20bn black hole in public finances

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