so anything that smacks fo the old politics, favours to those with the ear of the people in power, one rule for them and a different role for us holds particular dangers for mrjohnson. when both the favours and the rules involve covid, the mix becomes toxic. on wednesday, a judge ruled a vip lane for covid contracts unlawful, and the prime minister apologised for attending during lockdown a drinks do at number ten. jeffrey, you may well be losing track of the number of parties and social events that appear to have taken place in downing street during one or other of the lockdowns. i certainly have. but how perilous is the situation now for the prime minister, do you think? conventional wisdom has been a bit like donald trump, borisjohnson is teflon, meaning that things just don t stick to him and i think until now, when he was mayor of london, you know, he could make these mistakes, he could hang from a wire and make fun of it and people would be on his side all that kind ofjovialjok
deals, if you had an in with mp5 or civil deals, if you had an in with mps or civil servants, you could get put on a vip list and it would mean that your bid would get an earlier look, they would look at it earlier. the campaign group said that was unfair. thejudge agreed with campaign group said that was unfair. the judge agreed with them and said that this vip lane was unlawful, that this vip lane was unlawful, that the tobacco companies did get preferential treatment by being on the vip lane. there is another side to this, as always. that the two companies. thejudge did also decide that while they may have got the preferential treatment by being on it, they did not get the contracts because they were on it. and it is probably likely that they would have got the contract anyway, without the vip lane. both sides claiming success. but frankly it is not a great look for the government that this scheme has been found by the high court to be unlawful. maw; high court to be unlawful. ma
the high court has ruled the government s use of a so called vip lane for the awarding of contracts to supply personal protective equipment during the pandemic was unlawful. campaigners brought the case arguing two companies were given lucrative deals because of their connections. 0ur correspondent, lucy manning, has been following the ruling: this is all about the enormous amounts of money the government spends in the first stage of the pandemic and things like masks and aprons and overalls for staff in hospitals on the front line. the bbc and others reported that some of that could not be used, some of it had failed safety tests and money was being spent that didn t necessarily have to be spent. the government was taken to the high court about this vip lane. what this meant was that if you had a company
favours to those with the ear of the people in power, one rule for them and a different rule for us holds particular dangers for mrjohnson. when both the favours and the rules involve covid, the mix becomes toxic. on wednesday, a judge ruled a vip lane for covid contracts unlawful, and the prime minister apologised for attending during lockdown a drinks do at number10. jeffrey, you may well be losing track of the number of parties and social events that appear to have taken place in downing street during one or other of the lockdowns. i certainly have. but how perilous is the situation now for the prime minister, do you think? conventional wisdom has been that a bit like donald trump, borisjohnson is teflon, meaning that things just don t stick to him and i think until now, certainly when he was mayor of london, you know, he could make these mistakes, he could hang from a wire and make fun of it and people would be on his side all that kind ofjovialjoking managed to cover a lot.
welcome to all of you. good to have you with us again. levelling up, the idea of opening up opportunities to those left behind by decades of political neglect gave british conservatives a landslide election victory under boris johnson s leadership. so anything that smacks of the old politics, favours to those with the ear of the people in power, one rule for them and a different role for us holds particular dangers for mrjohnson. when both the favours and the rules involve covid, the mix becomes toxic. on wednesday, a judge ruled a vip lane for covid contracts unlawful, and the prime minister apologised for attending during lockdown a drinks do at number ten. jeffrey, you may well be losing track of the number of parties and social events that appear to have taken place in downing street during one or other of the lockdowns. i certainly have. but how perilous is the situation now for the prime minister, do you think? conventional wisdom has been