Unispace is a company that specialises in office interiors. They were awarded a total of £680m of PPE contracts in relation to the

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. According to ''The Guardian'', a founder of the company contacted

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directly prior to the award of the contract. ''The Times'' and ''The Guardian'' have both reported that the company has links to the

Plymouth Brethren The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglica ...

, and that companies associated with the Brethren were allocated in total over £2bn of government PPE contracts.

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