How can we trust the Tory government when its ministers behave like this?
Puppet: Matt Hancock mouths the words – but who wrote them? Him? The press barons? Or the IEA?
Matt Hancock is a naughty boy, isn’t he?
It seems his fat ministerial salary isn’t enough for naughty Matt, and he’s been taking donations – from a think tank dedicated to the end of the National Health Service.
And he’s the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
The Independent reports that after becoming an MP in 2010, Mr Hancock has received regular donations of between £2,000 and £4,000 from millionaire currency manager and Conservative Party donor Neil Record.
Mr Record heads the board of free market group the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).
That organisation has claimed that opponents of its plan to privatise the NHS are really opposed to patients having a choice.
In fact, privatisation would force patients into insurance schemes that are unlikely ever to pay out, meaning patients would end up with no choice at all.
The IEA is a firm fan of such insurance schemes.
And our Health Secretary takes its bribes cash.
We’ll need to watch this one carefully. Will he try to use Brexit to put through his real paymasters’ plan?
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It all seems to be a bit historical and appeared in the Register of Interests at the time, and all are prior to his becoming a minister, anyway. Time to move on.
Has he given that money back?
I have no idea but there again why should he? The payments were to the party according to the register , not to his own pocket. There is no declaration in the period covered by the current register.