Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended

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Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended

Ex-minister Liam Fox gets donation from Covid test firm he recommended

Tory MP Liam Fox received a 20,000 donation in June from a Covid testing firm on whose behalf he had contacted the then health secretary Matt Hancock.

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Mr Fox recommended SureScreen Diagnostics to Mr Hancock in 2020, an email seen by campaign group Good Law Project and the BBC shows.

The company went on to win a 500m contract to provide tests without facing competition.

Mr Fox and his representatives have not responded to requests for comment.

SureScreen said it had never paid for any government lobbying activity.

A director of the Derbyshire-based firm emailed Mr Fox in June 2020 to say that they were sending millions of antibody tests for use in hospitals in Germany, Spain and Sweden.

They said it was "crazy" that the tests could not be used in the UK, because they had not been approved by Public Health England.

At the time, before lateral flow tests - which detect current infection - became routinely available for use at home, some argued antibody tests were a way of allowing people who could prove they had previously had the virus to come out of lockdown.

Mr Fox immediately forwarded SureScreen's email to Mr Hancock, telling the then health secretary: "I don't think the British people would understand or approve of the widespread export of this capability when we will have a huge need at home."

This email was obtained by the Good Law Project through a Freedom of Information request.

It is not clear what resulted from Mr Fox's intervention over the antibody tests.

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