It took the last Tory government the best part of 18 years to become mired in sleaze, but Boris Johnson’s administration is smelling of it already. This week came word of at least £156m of taxpayers’ money wasted on 50 million face masks deemed unsuitable for the NHS. It was co-owned by one Andrew Mills, adviser to the government, staunch Brexiteer and cheerleader for international trade secretary, Liz Truss. If the government wanted to spend £156m on masks for the nation’s kids to play doctors and nurses, this was a great deal. That fits with the credo Johnson and Cummings had even before they bagged their majority.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2020 16:29 UTC