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Chris Harborne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
309 total appearances

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Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And in there were a couple of documents about this guy, Chris Harbourne, who rang a bell for me as a donor, one of the bigger political donors.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So we got into his relationship with Johnson.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

But then also since then, I've got into the much bigger relationship with Nigel Farage.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And I've just been going deeper and deeper and deeper down various rabbit holes.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

He's massively important.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

I think we can safely say that reform, Nigel Farage's political project, Reform Now, the Brexit party as it was, is uniquely dependent on this mega donor, Chris Harbourne.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

About two thirds of the donations that have come in to fund Farage's party have been from this one guy, Chris Harbourne.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

ยฃ22 million.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

In the UK, that's huge.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

So there's Christopher Charles Sheriff Harborne, born 1962 in Mossborough.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

It's near the Peak District.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

He's the son of a Lloyd's name, like someone who's... Like an insurance broker.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

An insurance investor, kind of thing, called Edgar.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And it's a very sort of English world.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Edgar has an ancestor who's R.C.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Sheriff, who wrote Dambusters.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Dambusters.

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The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

Kind of jingoistic wartime story with a theme tune that everybody knows.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And then in his mother, Habon's mother, Joan, from a well-off background herself.

Today in Focus
The secretive billionaire bankrolling Nigel Farage

And then you've got Chris growing up, middle of three kids and a very privileged young life.