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. 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. A spokesperson for Mr Fox said the story was a 'baseless smear'. It was 'concocted by the political activist Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project', the spokesman said, and Mr Fox would be making a complaint. 'It is appalling that this should be propagated by the BBC,' the statement issued after publication, added.