BOUNCE-BACK GROAN
IN HER budget speech, chancellor Rachel Reeves was keen to cite her Covid corruption commissioner to score political points.
Tom Heyhoe had been instrumental in “helping to chase down nearly £400m from dodgy pandemic spending and contracts”, she said, pointing to “Tory contracts handed out by Tory ministers to Tory peers and Tory friends”. But rather than being an indictment of the current opposition, this number betrays her own limited success against pandemic pillaging.