Corruption: Tories employ firm involved in ‘Test and Trace’ fiasco – to rig public inquiry into it?
Tory corruption never ends; now they are trying to rig the findings of the forthcoming public inquiry into the mishandling of Test and Trace.
Government outsourcing firm Deloitte has been hired by the Conservative government to prepare a “strategy” for “evidence generation requirements” of the public inquiry into the fiasco.
But Deloitte was involved in Test and Trace. The firm was awarded huge government contracts worth almost £300 million. Consultants were paid £6,000 per day – apparently to do very little – and the company charged the government £1 million per day in fees.
It therefore has a considerable interest in ensuring that the Test and Trace system brought in by the Tory government receives a clean bill of health – even though it was an unmitigated disaster.
Fortunately, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner is doing her job (unlike her boss Keir Starmer) and has written to Steve Barclay, Tory Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (who, one presumes, commissioned Deloitte to carry out the inquiry work), demanding answers.
As she points out in her letter, “The mismanagement, waste and failure of Test and Trace is well-documented. Up to £37 billion of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on a system that did not control infections and did not prevent future lockdowns.
“[Deloitte] was at the heart of Test and Trace’s operations, and therefore the failure of Test and Trace. It is clearly a conflict of interest for Deloitte to be awarded this contract.”
Here’s her tweet, publishing the letter to the world:
Deloitte consultants were paid £6,000 a day and the company charged the taxpayer £1 million per day in fees for their work on failed Test and Trace.
Now Ministers have given Deloitte another contract preparing the "strategy" for the public inquiry. Cancel this contract now. pic.twitter.com/gkuWh7UtSZ
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) November 12, 2021
No matter what Barclay may say about Test and Trace (he’ll probably try to defend it), the central point of the letter is absolutely correct: as a contractor involved in Test and Trace, Deloitte should not have been even considered for a role in the inquiry.
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And why has there been nothing in mainstream news about this…oh, because they are all just government lackeys.
Just confirms this Government has a one track corruption mind set to fool the plebs and get them off the hook. Their choice for this key task of getting to the roots of the failure like the NHS is in safe hands.