Baroness Mone's hubby-led firm hit with £122m repayment order for unusable Covid gowns rotting in storage since 2020! 
-> But taxpayers foot the £8m bill? 
-> Tory cronyism at its finest. 
-> Who's next? 

#PPEScandal #MichelleMone #ToryWaste #CovidCoverup 

‘The “#inhumane” treatment of #migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped #Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from #HomeOffice staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees.'

'Home Office accounts show the department paid out £56.8m in compensation for more than 2,700 wrongful detentions in the five years before the Rwanda raids.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/revealed-inhumane-treatment-of-migrants-uk-failed-rwanda-plan-laid-bare
#ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #ToryLegacy

Failed #Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says #YvetteCooper

#HomeSecretary describes #ToryPolicy that #Labour has axed as ‘the biggest waste of #taxpayer money I have ever seen’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/22/failed-rwanda-deportation-scheme-cost-700m-says-yvette-cooper
#ToryWaste

About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (#PPE) has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the #pandemic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll476qzm85o.amp

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryWaste #ToryCorruption #GE2024

Next #UK government faces #payouts to dozens of #RwandaFlightDetainees

Legal actions seek compensation for #AsylumSeekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for #deportation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/13/next-uk-government-payouts-asylum-seekers-detained-rwanda-deportation
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryInhumanity #ToryWaste #GE2024

'#HomeOffice made mistakes in rush to set up housing, MPs say'

'Committee says department pressed ahead with plans without adequate understanding of what would be required'

'The #PublicAccountsCommittee said the department “does not have a credible plan” to send #AsylumSeekers to #Rwanda and has little to show for hundreds of millions of pounds spent so far on the #policy or its accommodation plans'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/home-office-made-mistakes-in-rush-to-set-up-asylum-housing-mps-say

#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste #GE2024

'On Sunday it will be exactly two years since #BorisJohnson first announced that the government would send an “uncapped” number of #AsylumSeekers to the east African country within a few weeks.

So far none have been sent, the policy has been estimated to cost more than £500m, and the #SupremeCourt ruled against the policy last year.'

Rwanda deportation flights - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/12/rwanda-deportation-flights-airtanker-charter-airline-talks
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Refugees #ToryIncompetence #ToryWaste #AirTanker

'#MichelleDonelan used £34,000 of #TaxpayerFunds to cover #libel costs

Exclusive: #ScienceSecretary’s legal fees of £19,000 more than doubled sum previously admitted by government'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/11/michelle-donelan-used-34000-of-taxpayer-funds-to-cover-libel-costs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIllegality #ToryBehaviour #ToryLibel #ToryWaste

#EatOutToHelpOut #Covid19

'#Sunak spent £2m on focus groups for ‘eat out to help out’ scheme

Exclusive: Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consulted'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/11/rishi-sunak-spent-millions-focus-groups-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryWaste