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Originally Posted by Chris
Or you could just ditch the pursuit of facts and cling to the narrative that the stupid Tories wanted to give money to people who couldn’t do the job they needed done in an emergency.
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Still clinging to this narrative
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ase-eurotunnel
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The government has settled a high court case over the Brexit ferry fiasco after reaching an agreement worth up to £33m with Eurotunnel, which was suing it after the award of a contract to a company with no ships.
Eurotunnel argued that the government had breached public procurement rules by not putting any of the contracts out to tender.
It is believed that one of the factors leading to the settlement was the prospect of the background to the contract becoming public.
On Monday, Grayling was accused of trying to conduct large parts of the trial in private, against the principle of open justice, the high court heard.
The judge ordered Grayling to return to court by close of business Thursday with justification for keeping up to 10,000 documents relating to the contracts private.
It is believed the contract was settled out of court yesterday afternoon and all files now remain sealed and unavailable for press or public scrutiny.
Last month, the Department for Transport’s permanent secretary was forced to admit it had verbal assurances rather than a written guarantee of secure financial backing before handing a £13.8m contract to a ferry company with no ships.
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