Covid-19: Government aims to appoint corruption tsar within weeks

The UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will appoint a covid corruption commissioner within weeks to oversee the task of recouping billions of pounds lost to contract fraud during the covid pandemic.

The move follows a pledge in the Labour Party’s election manifesto to use “every means possible” to recoup public money lost from fraud and in flawed contracts signed by the previous government.12

The Conservative government was heavily …