In her speech, Reeves will say: "Billions of pounds of public money handed out to friends and donors of the Conservative party. Billions more defrauded from the taxpayer."
After days of bruising allegations over donations, the chancellor will confirm that she will refer more than half of contracts for material such as masks to the incoming Covid corruption commissioner.
The announcement is part of a fightback for Labour... Keir Starmer already under pressure over a range of issues including why he and senior ministers accepted thousands of pounds' worth of gifts from donors.
On entering government, we found 674m of [personal protection equipment] PPE contracts in dispute... So we are delivering on our commitment to appoint a Covid corruption commissioner.
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