Tory ministers have been accused of covering up a six-figure cash payment to friends of the PM’s adviser Dominic Cummings. The company Public First, which got £840,000 to run focus groups for No10, is owned by James Frayne, pictured below left, who set up a think tank in 2003 with Boris Johnson ’s controversial aide.
He was once Department of Education communications director under Cummings’ ex-boss Michael Gove and it was his wife Rachel Wolf who wrote the Tory 2019 election manifesto.
Now Shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves wants to know why Public First got Covid emergency money under official cost codes which relate to Brexit. “This is just one in a long line of contracts handed out to Tory friends and donors,” she said.
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