Is the UK conservative party guilty of COVID cronyism?

There is not enough evidence to blame the UK Conservative Party for cronyism, and the Boris Johnson Government have completely rejected any claims of ministerial conflicts of interest. Numerous companies accused in this scandal have also come out and denounced these suggestions. One of which is Globus Group, a manufacturer with 25 years of PPE production experience, who claimed to have "followed the bidding process" and made their political donations are "fully, transparently and properly declared" [1]. The Tories cannot be held responsible for the fact that many of their MPs come from prominent wealthy families, and are therefore more likely to have family members working in leadership positions of prominent companies.

news.trust.org/item/20201119100117-i7zah [1] metro.co.uk/2020/11/13/my-little-crony-map-shows-deals-between-government-mps-and-tory-donors-13587900

The chumocracy scandal represents a clear conflict of interest and when so many of the pandemic contracts have been such an absolute failure this whole things stinks of corruption. That is not to mention the massive amount of contracts awarded to companies with personal connections to ministers and no history (or seeming competence) in delivering on the contract they were awarded, be that PPE manufacturing or setting up a viable "track and trace" program. A graphical visualisation has been plotted and made available online by Harvard PhD Sophie E. Hill, and the scale is truly worrying, spurring the SNP to demand an inquiry and legal cases being launched by the Good Law Project and the Runnymede Trust, a racial equality think tank. A nauseating amount of money was wasted during the pandemic on contracts that were not fulfilled, there needs to be an investigation into why so much money was handed to companies managed by conservative donors and friends and family of MPs, for so few results.

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