The government broke the law by prioritising a pest control firm and a private equity firm with political connections for lucrative COVID contracts, the High Court ruled today.
A judge found that the government’s ‘VIP lane’ scheme, which helped give contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to politically connected firms, was unlawful.
The legal challenge, brought by the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor, focused on just a few of the contracts awarded under the scheme.
