The Conservatives have been accused of “rewarding their pals” after a hedge fund supervisor who has given the get together virtually £1.5m was handed a knighthood.
David Harding, the founder and chief government of Winton Capital hedge fund, has donated £475,000 since Boris Johnson turned prime minister in mid-2019.
He has been knighted within the new yr honours record for providers to philanthropy, having given giant sums to the Science Museum and to the College of Cambridge.
However Anneliese Dodds, the chair of the Labour’s get together, stated: “It appears the Conservatives are ringing within the new yr in precisely the identical method they’ve seen out the outdated: by rewarding their pals with gongs as a substitute of our key employee heroes.
“If you would like Boris Johnson to advocate you for a knighthood, don’t trouble working lengthy hours on low wages to assist others – simply turn into a hedge fund supervisor and donate half 1,000,000 kilos to the Tories.”
4 extra Conservative MPs acquired gongs, with a knighthood for backbencher Invoice Wiggin, whose profitable exterior work for offshore funding corporations – incomes him £73,000 on prime of his MPs’ wage – has been criticised.
Robert Buckland, the previous justice secretary sacked by Mr Johnson, and Robert Goodwill, a former minister backed by No 10 in a failed try and take over the 1922 Committee of backbench Tories, had been additionally knighted.
Caroline Dinenage, one other former minister sacked in September’s reshuffle, was made a dame.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
