Nick Sommerlad
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EXCL: Scores of schools "at risk of collapse" told to be ready for the possibility that they could have to close part or all of their buildings within days
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ICU ventilators bought for £50k each during the pandemic are being auctioned tomorrow in pairs for just £300. If anyone is feeling flush, I know a charity that could use them to save lives around the world.
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EXCL: Gillian Keegan's dept gave £1m from rebuilding pot to firm linked to husband
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EXCL: Tory donor's firm gets £11.5m contract to supply classrooms to RAAC-hit schools
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Volunteers are flocking to join the People's Electoral Commission. Thanks all!
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NEW: Tory MPs face new electoral fraud claims over online advertising costs
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EXCL Rent at luxury flat owned by Jeremy Hunt soared by 18% last year as Tory chancellor urges pay restraint for everyone else
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Medical aid charity Medi Tech Trust could make good use of them - they distribute excess NHS stock to countries around the world including Ukraine:
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The Russell Scott and the Good Law Project first unearthed this tragic waste. Here’s the story we did with them:
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Another Tory MP faces police investigation over general election spending
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How Tory MPs failed to declare thousands spent in marginal seats
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A staggering response to this. Thank you all. I'll email you today or tomorrow. We're already over two thirds there!
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EXCL: Top Tory had £70k of secret shares in oil giant Shell while Environment Secretary
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Still working through 400+ volunteer forms. Nearly 150 new spending returns now on their way to the Mirror. Some already arrived.
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NEW: Sussex police today becomes 20th force to appeal for more time to probe Tory election spending
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It is nearly 20 years since I went undercover at Yarls Wood immigration detention centre as a detention custody officer and found disturbing evidence of racism and violence.
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Tories ignored FOUR requests for information on their election expenses, reveals court document via
@psbook
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Thanks Eóin and hi to my new follows. I'm still digging and hope to bring you more on alleged
#toryelectionfraud
.
All those months ago, it was this lad
@NickSommerlad
who 1st broke the Tory Election Scandal story. That's definitely worth a follow I think
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Founder and co-chair Graham Watson said: “ They would be extremely helpful. All the countries that we help would be so grateful. New equipment is incredibly difficult to afford. Most donated machines are very pre loved.”
Check out his charity here:
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Here’s the auction - the next batch of Aeonmed VG70s are being sold tomorrow morning. These are worth more than £10,000 each I am told (but were panic-bought in 2020 for £50k a pop):
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The first new returns are trickling in to the People's Electoral Commission. Check online for your nearest Tory MP.
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NEW Tories 'paid unemployed woman' to pose as party activist in election campaign
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Tories mount legal bid to prevent police getting more time to investigate alleged
#toryelectionfraud
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NEW: Police get more time to investigate Tory MP Gavin Barwell's election expenses
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Tory MPs could be charged over election fraud DURING the general election campaign thanks to Mirror probe
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EXCL: NHS admits it sold off 6,000 unused Covid Nightingale beds costing £13m for just £410,000.
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150+ volunteers already to fetch missing Tory spending returns. Thanks all, emailing you now. Still need 150 more!
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"We talk about the teachers and the dustmen. But funeral directors are like a dirty word ... We work in this silent world that just passes everybody by. Don’t patronise me with a round of applause. Just stick to the rules so we can end this.”
@NAFD_UK
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How YOU can help investigate alleged Tory election fraud
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NEW Spending returns for Peterborough, Colchester, North West Cambridgeshire now online. More coming today.
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NEW: Election spending returns for Elmet and Rothwell, Bournemouth, Twickenham now online
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NEW: Election spending returns for Gainsborough, Tatton and Reading East now online
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SNP's
@PeteWishart
demands answers on
#toryelectionfraud
"there must be no whiff .. that this Government cheated its way to power"
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NEW Spending returns for Lewes, Wycombe, Beverley and Holderness, South West Norfolk now online
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New: Election spending returns for Vale of Glamorgan, Halesowen and Rowley Regis, Preseli Pembrokeshire now online
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Leader of Telford Council has today asked gov’t for an “independent public inquiry into cases of child sexual exploitation” in a major u-turn after our expose of shocking abuse in the town over four decades
@geraldine_mck
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NEW: Election spending returns for Loughborough, Gosport, Beckenham, Thurrock now online
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It took the deaths of three abuse victims as young as 13 in one English town plus a decade of warnings before the authorities there began to investigate the grooming gangs that could have devastated 1,000 lives
@geraldine_mck
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kent police should have investigated alleged
#toryelectionfraud
when first raised by the Mirror three months ago
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NEW: Election spending returns for Suffolk Coastal, Pendle, Hastings and Rye, Ribble Valley now online
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After an 18-month FOI battle, the DWP will admit tomorrow how many sickness benefit claimants died since I wrote this
http://t.co/s5t3Q2tLj4
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If you have messaged the People's Electoral Commission, do nothing until you hear back from us. We're ploughing through 300+ responses.
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Here's our investigation into the infamous Tory battlebus which kickstarted the
#electionexpenses
scandal a year ago ..
How Tory MPs failed to declare thousands spent in marginal seats
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You twitter people are amazing! 350+ volunteers already. Bear with us while we work through the list, making sure no-one doubles up.
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Devon & Cornwall police given more time to investigate Tory election expenses allegations via
@cornishguardian
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NEW: Election spending returns for North West Hampshire, Great Yarmouth, Selby and Ainsty now online
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Can anyone get the Rossendale and Darwen election spending return for us? Volunteer here:
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More than 200 new spending returns now being collected by the People's Electoral Commission. But still some gaps
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EXCL Thousands of Covid ventilators bought for £50k flogged off for as little as £100 - with
@RussellScott1
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DWP admits 7,200 sickness benefit claimants died Dec'11-Feb'14 after being put in "work related activity group"
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2,380 died after being told they were "fit to work" - a total of 85 dying a week after being denied full ESA
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Prosecutors to reveal if they'll charge up to 30 Tory MPs with election fraud THIS WEEK
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1yr since
@DailyMirror
first revealed the battlebus
#electionexpenses
scandal & the Tories are turning on each other
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Today's fine massive vindication for
@MichaelLCrick
+
@Channel4News
. Next will criminal charges result from this:
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Fuller version of this story now up. Did any other Tory candidates use local versions of the wrecking ball ad?
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Now down to £200 for two ventilators our Government bought for £100,000. The Medi Tech Trust are fundraising to buy them:
ICU ventilators bought for £50k each during the pandemic are being auctioned tomorrow in pairs for just £300. If anyone is feeling flush, I know a charity that could use them to save lives around the world.
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NEW: Spending returns in for South East Cambridgeshire, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale ?ssr=true
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CPS must decide by May 20 whether to charge 1st of 14+ Tory MPs with election fraud - the rest will learn fate before the general election.
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NEW: Election spending returns for Eastbourne, Milton Keynes North, Mid Bedfordshire are now online.
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Breaking: Staffordshire Police confirms it is the 12th force to send a file on alleged
#toryelectionfraud
to the CPS.
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@MichaelWhite
but not mention of the fact the Mirror broke it three months ago over five pages!
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NEW Spending returns for Aylesbury, Banbury, Wealden, Saffron Walden now online
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NEW: Election spending returns for Stone, Wantage, Stevenage now online
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@carolvorders
@MTTorg
Thanks
@carolvorders
. The
@MTTorg
are onto it. More than 100 being auctioned tomorrow and then a load more next week. Will share more details on how to donate when I get them.
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@elliemaeohagan
“It’s outrageous that a Tory donor's company is set to benefit from Ministers' scandalous failure to stop our schools from crumbling.”
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How Philip Green avoided up to £160m UK tax on BHS payments
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NEW Spending returns added for Stafford, Havant, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Southampton Itchen, Tamworth
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Breaking: CPS confirm that 11 police forces have passed over files on alleged
#toryelectionfraud
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EXCL: A Tory minister on a trade mission to India "happy to do what he could" to help the tech firm owned by the family of Rishi Sunak’s wife grow in the UK - with
@RussellScott1
and
@PeterKGeoghegan
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Here's the Mirror story from 2012 the DWP spent 18 months fighting to avoid a repeat of:
http://t.co/I2FFgB5GE4
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NEW: Election spending returns for Basingstoke, Waveney, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Milton Keynes South now online
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Will volunteers please email all Qs about fetching spending returns etc to me as I can't keep track of all notifications and DMs. Thanks.
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@bphillipsonMP
“It’s not enough that the Conservatives are throwing good public money after bad because of their failure to fix the RAAC crisis, now we learn that the beneficiaries are Conservative Party donors.”
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EXCL Businessman Doug Barrowman has arrived at his trial in Spain this morning on charges including corporate tax evasion.
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The Government is planing a huge expension of the capacity of its immigration detention estate. So our investigation with
@AaronWala
of
@LInvestigates
today is very worrying.
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@WestLindseyDC
Your staff are refusing to provide a copy of an election spending return. This is a legal right.
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Prosecutors are considering whether to charge at least a dozen Tory MPs exposed by the Mirror a year ago over alleged election fraud.
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PM admits Tories may have 'misdeclared' election spend - but did nothing illegal
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EXCL British businessman accused over alleged £100million VAT scam is a major Tory donor
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Best of luck to top Mirror colleagues
@PenmanMirror
,
@ParryTom
,
@lucethornton
,
@SnapperStenning
and Chris Bucktin at tonight's
#PressAwards
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Between 2011 and 2014, 64 people died every week after being denied full sickness benefit and told to get a job
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NEW: Election spending returns for Bracknell, East Worthing and Shoreham, Clwyd West, Aberconwy now online
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EXCL: Coal chiefs plotted to "delay" compensation from miners dying from lung diseases - with
@jonnymcj
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NEW: Election spending returns for Gloucester, Esher and Walton, Hazel Grove now online
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NEW Spending return up for Thornbury and Yate, more coming tomorrow
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@NickSommerlad
20+ Tory MPs were within £2k of local spending limits we found. If they bust them, by-elections?
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EXCL: Boris Johnson tycoon donor accused of paying £2million 'bribes for contracts'. With
@tpettifor
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Confronted with these numbers, Sir Philip has just told MPs that we should be grateful he didn't avoid more.
How Philip Green avoided up to £160m UK tax on BHS payments
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BHS workers claimed £376m tax credits as Sir Philip Green wallowed in opulence
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My grandfather Verdun, born 100 years ago, was named in memory of the ghost soldiers who reappeared today
#wearehere
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@NickSommerlad
until excellent follow ups by C4 News. But important to note how close the biggest electoral fraud scandal came to coverup.
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But force still gets extension as judge rules result could be "declared void".
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Unsurprisingly, Electoral Commission ignores fact Mirror broke battlebus scandal and it failed to investigate
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Six years on from this story, it looks like things haven't changed much for Hermes couriers
Revealed: delivery giant Hermes pays some couriers less than living wage
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