cronyism

The Civil Service Commission launched the probe in August after Conservatives said appointments to the new Labour government were evidence of a "culture of cronyism".

Meanwhile the Conservative Party called his appointment an example of "blatant cronyism".

Who would have guessed that Devin Nunes, who left Congress to run former President Trump’s media company, would be accused of mismanagement and cronyism?

We saw in the first term a preview: chaos, incompetence, cronyism.

After enduring years of taunts from Labour about cronyism and sleaze, it's now the Tories' turn to make the jokes.