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Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide

By John Pring on June 13, 2024 Category: News

Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide

Official documents link two former Conservative work and pensions ministers – including would-be party leader Penny Mordaunt – to a government cover-up of how a disabled man took his own life after being wrongly found fit for work. The email and letter are part of a huge quantity of documents relating to the death of Michael O’Sullivan that have been drawn together over the … [Read more...] about Caxton House cover-up: How DWP destroyed files and prevented investigation into claimant’s suicide

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