'As NHS staff struggled during Covid, Tories spent money on overpriced or defective PPE'

Tory donor Steve Parkin has money to burn. Not only did the company he founded get £11million to deliver PPE to the NHS ­during the pandemic.

But now the firm has been given another £4.5million of taxpayer cash to incinerate gowns and goggles found to be useless.

And eyebrows will raise at those nice little earners as we reveal Mr Parkin has given £730,000 to the Tories.