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‘Sickening’: £84m in taxpayer-funded PPE money goes to middlemen with the right political connections

"Not enjoying my breakfast this morning. This is sickening," one person tweeted in response.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2021-11-11 12:26
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An eye-watering £84 million in taxpayer-funded PPE money has gone to middlemen with political connections over the course of the pandemic, according to Private Eye reporting.

A thread posted by Good Law Project director Jo Maugham has crunched the numbers on a series of inside deals made as the UK grappled with Covid-19.

One company, Ayanda, won a £252 million deal to supply facemasks – with £155 million-worth of them being deemed unusable by the NHS over safety concerns.

Andrew Mills, who worked for Ayanda as a consultant, is a former government adviser, and was paid £32.4 million for the deal, while Tim Horlick (who owns Ayanda) pocketed £40 million.

Someone has helpfully leaked documents to Private Eye showing that Mills was paid £32.4m. pic.twitter.com/O1GHOv8uRv

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 11, 2021

Private Eye also reveals that another Ayanda director made £11.6 million commission on the deal through his company Marlinspike.

Nathan Englebrecht is the husband ofHorlick’s daughter, Alice, according to the reports.

Together these sums amount to some £84 million-worth of profits going not to suppliers of facemasks but to “middlemen who were lucky enough to have the right political connections”,Maugham said.

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