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Boris's Britain making the wrong kind of headlines overseas.

Waste, negligence and cronyism: Inside Britain’s pandemic spending

In the desperate scramble for protective gear and other equipment, politically connected companies reaped billions.

To shine a light on one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain’s postwar era, The New York Times analyzed a large segment of it, the roughly 1,200 central government contracts that have been made public, together worth nearly $22 billion. Of that, about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy. Meanwhile, smaller firms without political clout got nowhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...contracts.html