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The shadow chancellor said taxpayers had lost £7.2bn during the pandemic, with “every single one of those cheques signed byShe said that if Labour wins the next election, it will appoint a “Covid corruption commissioner” whose job it will be to recover as much of that money as possible.
On Covid fraud, she said: “We will go after those who profited from the carnival of waste during the pandemic.
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