Sir Keir Starmer has called for the National Crime Agency to probe over £11.8billion of Covid fraud. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, the Labour leader suggested that an NCA investigation could help tackle the rising costs of living.
"It’s a staggering figure and it’s extraordinary the Government is not lifting a finger to get it back," he said. "They are worried if they brought the NCA in it would expose how badly their systems were run.
"Yet that’s almost exactly the sum they hope to raise from their National Insurance hike which hurts so many families struggling with bills. The money will not go to social care or the NHS but to backfill what they have lost to fraud and bad contracts."
