Politics

Hands was contacted by a former Conservative chair about the company. They went on to be handed a £25 million PPE deal.

The revelation came in the week it was announced energy giants had recorded historic profits, sparking calls for an increase in taxes on energy giants

Almost £345,000 was spent by Foreign Office officials in 2021 under the heading “restaurants and bars", the data reveals.

The 57-year-old said there was evidence that ‘many in our political and business establishment want to unravel the deals we did’.

The British science sector has been calling on the Government to secure the UK’s association to Horizon Europe and other EU science programmes.

“The government used to have a deal on returning migrants, but it ended with Brexit and no alternative was agreed."

The UK government has been accused of infringing democratic rights to free and fair elections by failing to act on the findings of the Russia report.

It comes as households across the country grapple with cost-of-living pressures, with the Government also facing a wave of industrial action.

It has been suggested that Dorries is in line for a peerage, as part of Mr Johnson’s resignation honours list.