In response, Sir James Dyson said it was "absurd to suggest that the urgent correspondence was anything other than seeking compliance with rules" and that his company did not receive "any benefit from the project".
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At the time, the U.K. urgently needed ventilators to treat COVID patients. Sir James Dyson said he was able to make them (although it didn’t happen in the end). The gov says there were genuine fears the U.K. wld run out of ventilators
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According to the ministerial code - a list of rules setting out the standards of conduct expected of ministers - "a private secretary or official should be present for all discussions relating to government business".
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Two weeks after these texts, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, told a group of MPs that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide specific help during the pandemic would not be affected.
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The man gave £160k of taxpayers money so he could get laid. This isn’t exactly shocking news
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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New Pandemic Game Show Opportunity Knocks Multi £m Prizes Awarded Every Day To Register Simply Text
@BorisJohnsonKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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This is slightly different to other scandals. In the scramble for ventilators , a temporary tweak to the tax system to encourage production was in national interest I’d suggest.
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It implies he wanted to bring cheap labour. There were many engineers in the UK out of work or on furlough. I worked for a UK company which did this. Brought overseas IT staff into UK jobs (onshore) after sacking the UK workers.
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Do we all remember the battering the government were getting about ventilators at the time. As a buyer of 25 years, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve bent rules for suppliers of critical products and services. And that wasn’t even a case of life or death.
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You do know that Dyson never actually provided the ventilators don’t you?
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