Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane
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Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane
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Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane
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🔴 SCOOP: Nick Candy’s personal company was placed on the lucrative ‘VIP lane’ for Covid contracts
Candy donated £340k to the Tories before resigning to join Reform UK as treasurer
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Candy donated £340k to the Tories before resigning to join Reform UK as treasurer
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
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April 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🔴 SCOOP: Nick Candy’s personal company was placed on the lucrative ‘VIP lane’ for Covid contracts
Candy donated £340k to the Tories before resigning to join Reform UK as treasurer
New by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @russellscott1.bsky.social and me 🧵
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Candy donated £340k to the Tories before resigning to join Reform UK as treasurer
New by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social @russellscott1.bsky.social and me 🧵
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Tory govt wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds.
Its “VIP lane” gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with connections to the Tories.
Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro was one example of crony contracts.
Most of the money won't be recovered.
Its “VIP lane” gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with connections to the Tories.
Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro was one example of crony contracts.
Most of the money won't be recovered.
Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Tory govt wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds.
Its “VIP lane” gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with connections to the Tories.
Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro was one example of crony contracts.
Most of the money won't be recovered.
Its “VIP lane” gave high priority for PPE contracts to companies with connections to the Tories.
Baroness Mone's PPE Medpro was one example of crony contracts.
Most of the money won't be recovered.
Matt Hancock stayed at the mansion of a Tory donor who owns Randox without declaring it. Hancock then awarded them £500m through the VIP PPE lane.
Will we hear about THIS at the Covid Enquiry?
Will we hear about THIS at the Covid Enquiry?
July 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Matt Hancock stayed at the mansion of a Tory donor who owns Randox without declaring it. Hancock then awarded them £500m through the VIP PPE lane.
Will we hear about THIS at the Covid Enquiry?
Will we hear about THIS at the Covid Enquiry?
Follow @petergeoghegan.bsky.social truly one of the BEST anti corruption journos in the UK
This new work by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social and Peter’s organisation DEMOCRACY FOR SALE exposing YET MORE Tory crap with the PPE VIP LANE 👌🏼
This new work by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social and Peter’s organisation DEMOCRACY FOR SALE exposing YET MORE Tory crap with the PPE VIP LANE 👌🏼
🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
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Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
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Government loses legal battle over Covid ‘VIP Lane’
Exclusive: Judge slams “most unsatisfactory” Cabinet Office and orders release of names of 'VIP' firms to Democracy for Sale reporter - after *four year* wait.
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March 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Follow @petergeoghegan.bsky.social truly one of the BEST anti corruption journos in the UK
This new work by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social and Peter’s organisation DEMOCRACY FOR SALE exposing YET MORE Tory crap with the PPE VIP LANE 👌🏼
This new work by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social and Peter’s organisation DEMOCRACY FOR SALE exposing YET MORE Tory crap with the PPE VIP LANE 👌🏼
About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…
But why only Michelle Mone?
£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk
So where’s the rest of them?
And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?
But why only Michelle Mone?
£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk
So where’s the rest of them?
And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…
But why only Michelle Mone?
£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk
So where’s the rest of them?
And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?
But why only Michelle Mone?
£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk
So where’s the rest of them?
And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?
High Court showdown begins Wednesday over pandemic fortune after Tory peer’s 'VIP lane' firm accused of delivering dud PPE. #ukpolitics
June 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
High Court showdown begins Wednesday over pandemic fortune after Tory peer’s 'VIP lane' firm accused of delivering dud PPE. #ukpolitics
Read @jennacorderoy.bsky.social, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @russellscott1.bsky.social’s investigation into how Nick Candy, the billionaire property developer – then a major Tory donor, now Reform treasurer – found himself in the PPE VIP lane:
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
democracyforsale.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Read @jennacorderoy.bsky.social, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @russellscott1.bsky.social’s investigation into how Nick Candy, the billionaire property developer – then a major Tory donor, now Reform treasurer – found himself in the PPE VIP lane:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
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Another thing that makes me sick is the VIP lane for Covid contracts. So Tory cronies could hoover up during a pandemic. When people were sick and dying
January 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Another thing that makes me sick is the VIP lane for Covid contracts. So Tory cronies could hoover up during a pandemic. When people were sick and dying
The Covid inquiry has concluded that the Tory govenrment wasted £10bn on PPE.
So when will the ministers who set up these VIP lane deals with their cronies face consequences?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
So when will the ministers who set up these VIP lane deals with their cronies face consequences?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The Covid inquiry has concluded that the Tory govenrment wasted £10bn on PPE.
So when will the ministers who set up these VIP lane deals with their cronies face consequences?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
So when will the ministers who set up these VIP lane deals with their cronies face consequences?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
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It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's her own fault, I have zero sympathy for Michelle Mone, but she's in the headlines now because she's always chased the headlines.
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
However, she is the tip of the VIP lane iceberg, most of them connected to the Tory Party. Utter corruption.
Read these 8 pages from The Decade In Tory
1/2
“It is absolutely disgraceful – strong language that accurately reflects the culpability of the Department – for the Cabinet Office to continue to refuse to come clean about who Gove and other ministers were lobbied by”
– @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social
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– @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
democracyforsale.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“It is absolutely disgraceful – strong language that accurately reflects the culpability of the Department – for the Cabinet Office to continue to refuse to come clean about who Gove and other ministers were lobbied by”
– @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
– @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social
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The Herald claims the Murrell scandal is "the biggest political scandal in a generation."
Bigger than Mandelson?
Bigger than partygate?
Bigger than Horizon scandal?
Bigger than Windrush scandal?
Bigger than Tory PPE VIP lane scandal?
Bigger than cash for honours?
Someone needs to get a grip.
Bigger than Mandelson?
Bigger than partygate?
Bigger than Horizon scandal?
Bigger than Windrush scandal?
Bigger than Tory PPE VIP lane scandal?
Bigger than cash for honours?
Someone needs to get a grip.
June 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The Herald claims the Murrell scandal is "the biggest political scandal in a generation."
Bigger than Mandelson?
Bigger than partygate?
Bigger than Horizon scandal?
Bigger than Windrush scandal?
Bigger than Tory PPE VIP lane scandal?
Bigger than cash for honours?
Someone needs to get a grip.
Bigger than Mandelson?
Bigger than partygate?
Bigger than Horizon scandal?
Bigger than Windrush scandal?
Bigger than Tory PPE VIP lane scandal?
Bigger than cash for honours?
Someone needs to get a grip.
Good. This is an important victory.
It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal
It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal
BREAKING | Company linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay government £122m over Covid PPE
Company linked to Michelle Mone ordered to repay government £122m over Covid PPE
www.independent.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Good. This is an important victory.
It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal
It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal
£10bn wasted. A 'VIP lane' for well-connected firms. The Covid inquiry's verdict on the Johnson government is in.
They "undermined public trust when the country needed it most".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
They "undermined public trust when the country needed it most".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
£10bn wasted. A 'VIP lane' for well-connected firms. The Covid inquiry's verdict on the Johnson government is in.
They "undermined public trust when the country needed it most".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
They "undermined public trust when the country needed it most".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds
Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm was in the Tory VIP lane for Covid contracts
leftfootforward.org/2025/04/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/04/refo...
Reform UK treasurer’s firm named in Tory ‘VIP lane’ for Covid contracts
Nick Candy donated £270,000 to the Tories before he joined Reform as treasurer
leftfootforward.org
April 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm was in the Tory VIP lane for Covid contracts
leftfootforward.org/2025/04/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/04/refo...
Tireless investigators like @jennacorderoy.bsky.social really shouldn’t have to spend four years - and go to court - to prise documents out of government.
But we are so lucky that she does (and I’m so lucky to work with her at Democracy for Sale) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
But we are so lucky that she does (and I’m so lucky to work with her at Democracy for Sale) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
April 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Tireless investigators like @jennacorderoy.bsky.social really shouldn’t have to spend four years - and go to court - to prise documents out of government.
But we are so lucky that she does (and I’m so lucky to work with her at Democracy for Sale) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
But we are so lucky that she does (and I’m so lucky to work with her at Democracy for Sale) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...
Let's not forgot: firms linked to Conservative donors and party figures received £1.7 BILLIONB+ in PPE contracts after referrals from Tory ministers, MPs, and officials.
Companies in the VIP lane were ten times more likely to be given contracts, yet over half of the PPE they supplied was unusable.
Companies in the VIP lane were ten times more likely to be given contracts, yet over half of the PPE they supplied was unusable.
March 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Let's not forgot: firms linked to Conservative donors and party figures received £1.7 BILLIONB+ in PPE contracts after referrals from Tory ministers, MPs, and officials.
Companies in the VIP lane were ten times more likely to be given contracts, yet over half of the PPE they supplied was unusable.
Companies in the VIP lane were ten times more likely to be given contracts, yet over half of the PPE they supplied was unusable.
Political questions about the peerage of Michelle Mone.
PM David Cameron didn't follow proper protocols for her peerage, made her govt adviser.
The same David Cameron appointed Philip Green (BHS fame) as the Govt's efficiency Tsar, bugled the Brexit referendum.
Mone benefitted from Tory VIP lane.
PM David Cameron didn't follow proper protocols for her peerage, made her govt adviser.
The same David Cameron appointed Philip Green (BHS fame) as the Govt's efficiency Tsar, bugled the Brexit referendum.
Mone benefitted from Tory VIP lane.
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Political questions about the peerage of Michelle Mone.
PM David Cameron didn't follow proper protocols for her peerage, made her govt adviser.
The same David Cameron appointed Philip Green (BHS fame) as the Govt's efficiency Tsar, bugled the Brexit referendum.
Mone benefitted from Tory VIP lane.
PM David Cameron didn't follow proper protocols for her peerage, made her govt adviser.
The same David Cameron appointed Philip Green (BHS fame) as the Govt's efficiency Tsar, bugled the Brexit referendum.
Mone benefitted from Tory VIP lane.
Some of the Tory donors added to the covid vip lane, whilst excellent suppliers like Arco where ignored
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Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’
Exclusive: Candy’s personal company among previously undisclosed Tory-linked businesses and individuals placed in controversial PPE VIP lane.
open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Some of the Tory donors added to the covid vip lane, whilst excellent suppliers like Arco where ignored
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Politico on the new Covid inquiry report: "Despite representatives of other parties also suggesting contractors via the VIP lane...only those with Conservative connections saw their proposals win tenders."
The system was “inherently biased” towards people with Tory connections.
The system was “inherently biased” towards people with Tory connections.
July 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Politico on the new Covid inquiry report: "Despite representatives of other parties also suggesting contractors via the VIP lane...only those with Conservative connections saw their proposals win tenders."
The system was “inherently biased” towards people with Tory connections.
The system was “inherently biased” towards people with Tory connections.