#67: UK Government Gone Wild – Is it okay to bend the rules for friends and family?

<p>The ladies discuss whether it’s acceptable to bend the rules when a friend or family member asks for a favour, if the current UK government is corrupt, and where the line is between lobbying and cronyism, following Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s failure to declare his shares and family connections in a company awarded a £300k contract with NHS Wales, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s texts to Sir James Dyson promising to “fix” tax issues affecting  employees returning to the UK to make ventilators during the pandemic.</p><p>--------------------------------------- </p><p>FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION </p><p>#EthnicallySpeaking</p><p>Instagram:<a href="http://www.instagram.com/unitedmelaninco"> https://www.instagram.com/unitedmelaninco</a></p><p>Facebook:<a href="https://facebook.com/unitedmelaninco"> https://facebook.com/unitedmelaninco</a></p><p>Twitter:<a href="http://instagram.com/unitedmelaninco"> https://instagram.com/unitedmelaninco</a></p><p>LinkedIn:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitedmelaninco/"> https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitedmelaninco/</a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/UnitedMelaninGroup">https://www.youtube.com/c/UnitedMelaninGroup</a></p><p>Get in touch with us: ethnicallyspeaking@unitedmelaningroup.com</p><p>---------------------------------------- </p><p>LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE </p><p><a href="https://unitedmelaningroup.com/es067">https://unitedmelaningroup.com/es067</a></p><p>(Website – Show notes)</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56819137">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56819137</a></p><p>(Article – Boris Johnson told Sir James Dyson by text he would 'fix' tax issue – BBC News)</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-dyson-lobbying-boris-johnson-b1838735.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-dyson-lobbying-boris-johnson-b1838735.html</a></p><p>(Article – Dyson denies trying to ‘extract favours’ from Boris Johnson – Rory Sullivan for The Independent)</p><p><a href="https://ine