33. LIVE SHOW: Matt Hancock broke the law - the full story
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A high court judge has ruled Matt Hancock acted unlawfully by not revealing the details of contracts signed during the pandemic. But this is a scandal - uncovered by the work of the Good Law Project - which says so much more: about where £12.5bn worth of public money has gone, about our government, and about British society in 2021.
To explain what it all means, we're joined by The Good Law Project's Jolyon Maugham and Open Democracy's Peter Geoghegan.
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| 0:20.1 | So we live in a time of chaos, which I think my hair is a pretty app metaphor for at the |
| 0:25.5 | moment, and this will only get worse. |
| 0:29.0 | What we're talking about today is, I think emblematic, it's emblematic, it's caught a lot |
| 0:34.1 | is caught, people's imagination, there's a lot of fury, it's been trending all day, |
| 0:39.1 | all over the weekend on Twitter, and it is the case of Matt Hancock, who, as you probably |
| 0:44.8 | know, is our secretary of state for health and car crash interviews, who has a high court |
| 0:50.6 | judge has ruled that he acted unlawfully in the transparency of COVID-19 related contracts. |
| 0:58.0 | This was a case brought by the phenomenal Good Law project, and we have an absolute |
| 1:02.4 | superstar with us today to talk about that, and two MP, three MPs, I should say as well. |
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