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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask to combat the spread of Covid-19, waves as he leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on June 10, 2021, to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) The UK government unlawfully awarded a communications contract to friends of a key adviser of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a High Court judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling comes as Johnson has faced accusations of cronyism and lack of transparency in handing lucrative supply contracts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wearing a face mask to combat the spread of Covid-19, waves as he leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on June 10, 2021, to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)
The UK government unlawfully awarded a communications contract to friends of a key adviser of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a High Court judge ruled Wednesday. x
The ruling comes as Johnson has faced accusations of cronyism and lack of transparency in handing lucrative supply contracts during the coronavirus pandemic.
The claim was submitted by The Good Law Project, a campaign group that fights legal cases that it views as in the public interest.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced accusations of cronyism in the past few months. (File)
London:
The UK government unlawfully awarded a communications contract to friends of a key adviser of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a High Court judge ruled Wednesday.
The ruling comes as Johnson has faced accusations of cronyism and lack of transparency in handing lucrative supply contracts during the coronavirus pandemic.
The claim was submitted by The Good Law Project, a campaign group that fights legal cases that it views as in the public interest.
The contract was to provide the government with information on the public mood through focus groups and test the effectiveness of public health slogans.
UK court rules government acted unlawfully in contract awarded to friends of Dominic Cummings
Britain s High Court ruled Wednesday that the UK government acted unlawfully in awarding a contract to a company run by friends of the former top adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In her ruling, Judge Finola O Farrell found that a June 2020 decision by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove to pay more than £500,000 ($912,943) to market research firm Public First gave rise to apparent bias and was unlawful.
The case was brought by the Good Law Project, a legal campaigning group which argued that Dominic Cummings, Johnson s then-chief adviser, wanted focus group and communications support services work to be given during the coronavirus pandemic to a company with executives who were his friends.