Rachel Reeves responds to reports that a Tory-linked private firm was awarded a government hotel quarantine contract

“This Tory government’s obsession with outsourcing and repeated conflict of interests has marred its pandemic response.

“There has got be urgent reassurance that there are no conflicts of interest here – and that the public and those workers trying hard to make the hotel quarantine work don’t pay the price for this government’s last minute, shambolic planning.”