'Sunak should know from PPE, there must be no VIP access for wife's family firm'
There is no reason why a rich man should not become Prime Minister any more than a poor one. The difference is, a wealthy PM must take greater care over any perceived conflicts of interest.
That’s where Rishi Sunak falls down. There can be no “VIP access” for the firm responsible for his family fortune.
Yet trade minister Lord Johnson offered just that to IT giant Infosys, in which Mr Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, has a £624m stake.
We obtained documents that show Lord Johnson promised Infosys “to do what he could to facilitate” growth in its UK business.
Lord Johnson is no stranger to the Indian company, having previously been involved in a finance firm – along with former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg – which invested heavily in it. That also raises eyebrows.
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Mr Sunak should have learned lessons from the scandal over VIP lane PPE contracts being awarded to Tory cronies in the pandemic.
Yet one of his ministers has now muddied the waters between the PM’s duty to the nation’s best interests and his own.
The Government was reluctant to hand us the information it was eventually forced to under Freedom of Information laws. That
fuels suspicion.
Mr Sunak must now publicly clear the air. As the richest Prime Minister in history, only full disclosure will do.
Track and ruin
It does not take a master mathematician to see that Kent’s new Thanet Parkway rail station is a costly white elephant.
Monday’s 7am to London St Pancras had 680 seats. But only 10 passengers actually got on board to sit in them.
The Tories built Thanet Parkway with £40m of public money, yet the station is used by fewer than 300 people a day.
It is yet another rail fail on top of the mess this Government made of grossly over-budget HS2. First it ditched the Leeds leg, then everything north of Birmingham.
Alternative rail projects Rishi Sunak promised for the North are no more likely to be built than Boris Johnson’s 40 new hospitals as the money is diverted to Tory areas in the South.
Even what’s left of HS2 may not run all the way into the capital’s Euston.
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Time to blow the whistle on this fag-end of a Tory Government. Because, like the trains, it’s going nowhere.
Greatest giver
You have to be a very special person to give a fist-sized lump of your liver to a baby you have never met. Holly Thorpe is such a person.
She is the UK’s first emergency altruistic living organ donor – someone prepared to part with a kidney, or a piece of liver, for a stranger.
Her inspirational selflessness enabled her to give the most precious gift. The gift of life.
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