Pressure grows on Conservatives amid reports Matt Hancock has shares in family firm used by NHS

The Conservative government is “infected with widespread cronyism”, Labour has claimed, amid reports the health secretary’s family firm won contracts from the NHS.

It has emerged that Matt Hancock failed to declare his interest in the company Topwood Ltd to parliamentary authorities for more than two months and had never previously declared his family’s longstanding involvement with it.

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