LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday defied calls from opposition lawmakers to resign after having U-turned on her proposed economic plans, saying she was a "fighter" and not a "quitter".

'The text was a copy of my biopsy results along with the paragraph "I want to see you next week to check your recovery and we will contact the haematologist to get you booked in to be seen and make a treatment plan",' Kadi told FEMAIL, who was at work at the time.

The electricity crisis is just the latest trial for Libyans after a decade of insecurity, fuel shortages, crumbling infrastructure and economic woes since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moame

Several of the ‘mule' accounts belonged to victims of a so-called ‘catfishing' romance fraud that the duo had simultaneously carried out, in which they pretended to be a woman online in order to ensnare middle-aged men. Akinneye got five years and six months for fraud and money laundering.

As a result, more than 1,000 of the firms given loans had not even been trading when Covid struck and nearly 10,000 companies went bust between May and October last year, leaving taxpayers on the hook for billions.

Demonstrators torched and ransacked the House of Representatives, based in the eastern city of Tobruk, along with other official buildings, while masked protesters burned tyres and blocked roads i

Keith Morgan, former head of the British Business Bank (BBB), a quango that oversaw the scheme, wrote to Alok Sharma, then the minister responsible, two days before launch to warn that the scheme was ‘vulnerable to abuse by individuals and by participants in organised crime'.

Mrs Hubble is the latest victim to be caught out by temporary motorway speed limits. The expansion of 'smart' motorways led to a rash of the temporary 50mph limits being installed during construction work.

The shambolic state of affairs recently prompted the resignation of Lord Agnew of Oulton, a successful businessman who was ‘minister for efficiency and transformation' in the Treasury and Cabinet Office.

When Muhammad Gohir Khan, an £11-an-hour Iceland delivery driver from East London, was convicted this month of agreeing to murder a pro-democracy Pakistani blogger in return for a £100,000 fee, it emerged that he had used an insolvent travel and export business, which had collapsed in 2019, to secure a £45,000 loan when the pandemic struck a year later.

David Clarke, the former chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel, siue tutoring told MPs last year that a centralised bank data repository could have identified long-dormant company accounts that received government cash.

Last month, Judge Cross made headlines by delivering a remarkable courtroom speech demanding an inquiry into the astonishing circumstances that resulted in the ringleaders of a violent crime gang getting their hands on £145,000 in Covid ‘bounce-back' cash.

The BBB has since claimed the correspondence was ‘held up' in the House of Lords IT system. Agnew — who claims that the BBB would not even share fraud data with him, despite his role as counter-fraud minister — sent the letter on December 16.

By the time of his resignation, Smith had yet to reply.

Gerard Boyle's waste-disposal firm South Manchester Plastics doubled up as the headquarters of his five-man drug gang, which purchased cocaine for £40,000 a kilo and distributed it across the North West.

An Insolvency Service investigation established that Ihsan had made cash withdrawals of £24,342 before transferring the remainder of the money into companies controlled by a friend named Mahir Towid Ul Haque.

‘The public are entitled to an explanation as to how these loans were obtained.' ‘The most basic of checks would have revealed the fraud,' Judge Cross remarked while sentencing Hussain to 15 years and Shafique to five.

As recently as December, attempts to crack down on fraud were falling on stony ground.

Just before Christmas, the aforementioned Lord Agnew wrote to BBB chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin questioning whether banks ‘are genuinely doing all they can to fight fraud'.

No one even bothered to check the names of applicants against the criminal database.

Instead, anyone with a firm registered at Companies House and a linked bank account (a demographic that includes every successful money launderer in the UK) could access tens of thousands of pounds.

He and fellow gang members were successfully prosecuted for a string of prostitution and modern slavery offences, along with several counts of fraud, and this month were handed sentences totalling seven years and two months.

Most revolve around a simple fact: with the Government effectively guaranteeing loans, banks had little incentive to check that information applicants gave was correct or that they could afford to make repayments.

Another key error meant that checks to ensure that a single company was not illegally applying for multiple bounce-back loans were not put in place until June 2020, a month after the scheme was launched.