Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor.
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How come the Rayner housing story was top of the news for weeks, but the Nathan Gill story barely cut through?
Which do you think is more important and a worse violation of democracy?
The Prime Minister just told me any party leader should want to get to the bottom of this Russian bribery scandal with Reform.
He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?
Dear Britain.
This is how @bbcpolitics & @afneil covered Nigel Farage during the same period his close friend & ally was accepting Russian bribes
It used him as a 'comedy' reporter. @afneil never asked him one difficult question & mocked & minimised my colleagues' & I reporting
The BBC no-platforming of someone who has been on this story for years, and done some remarkable journalism in the face of threats, writs, abuse and intimidation, is part of the same weirdness of their deliberate downplaying, along with the right wing rags, of what should be one of the biggest stories of the year, as we discuss on @RestIsPolitics tomorrow. An MEP goes to jail for taking bribes from Russia - yeah woteva go the great British media. All power to your elbow @carolecadwalla
Well!!! Once a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal always a Murdoch hack and a Robbie Gibb pal I guess …. This whole BBC nonsense has been a right wing stitch up from start to finish. EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quotes https://t.co/BwcwMzHE7k
Alastair Campbell points out that Robbie Gibb being appointed to the BBC board is the equivalent of him being appointed to the BBC board.
"Can you imagine the outcry from... the Telegraph, Mail, Sun... they would have gone completely berserk..."
With an ally of Nigel Farage pleading guilty to taking bribes for making pro-Russian statements, it’s clear we need an in-depth investigation into Russian money in our politics.
Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
Had a very tough day watching certain Tory MPs up in arms about grooming gangs, when they chose to take no action or even investigate the Tory MP that raped me. They heard my story, my parents' pleas, my medical evidence, and still chose to protect, cover up, & even promote him
The Guardian is cancelling my contract after 19 years continuous employment with no pay-off so totes happy to go to the Indie to continue my investigation into Evgeny’s dad, the ex-KGB spy.
The UK media: so many fine choices.
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It took the last government about five minutes to legislate to stop foreigners buying a national newspaper. How long will it take for this government to close a loophole that allows a foreigner to influence the next UK election by sloshing millions the way of one party?