Last week, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak promised that the government would do everything” it can to recover COVID support funds stolen by fraudsters. 31.01.2022, Sputnik International
Theodore Agnew said schoolboy errors had been made by the Covid loans scheme, such as bounce-back loans being given to more than 1,000 companies that were not trading when Covid struck.
Resignations come in all shapes and sizes, even while waiting for the big one. Theodore Agnew, aka Lord Agnew, minister of state at the Treasury, provided a masterclass in how to do it.
With £5bn lost to fraudulent Covid loan claims, Lord Agnew did a rare thing for a minister in 2022: he told the truth and quit, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins