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Government awards billionaire tax exile Lord Ashcroft’s firm £350m NHS contract
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Billionaire tax exile and Tory party donor Lord Ashcroft
by Lamiat Sabin
Parliamentary Reporter
CONSERVATIVES were blasted over their “cronyism” today after a firm owned by billionaire tax exile Lord Ashcroft was awarded a £350 million contract to provide temporary Covid-19 testing staff.
The Tory donor’s company Medacs was awarded the contract to provide locum medics and workers for “laboratories or to assist the national testing programme in response to Covid-19,” documents show.
The lucrative Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) contract was seen by the Morning Star after it was published on Tuesday.
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