Chris Harborne

He goes to Westminster private school and then he follows his dad to Cambridge.

And also like his dad, he rose for his college education.

And then he's off into kind of really an elite world.

So like McKinsey, this management consultancy that just, you know, contracts from and contacts in elites all over the world.

And then he's into the sort of corporate scene, Pepsi and stuff like that.

And then he starts to go to Thailand.

So he turns up in the 90s to do market research stuff, trying to work out what stocks will go up and what stocks will go down and whose debt's good and bad.

And that's just when this massive financial crisis starts in Asia.

Businesses are going bust, currencies are collapsing.

But with all these crises, you know, if you're clever, and everyone who speaks to me about Harbour says he's a very, very clever guy.

He could pick his way through this and he could make large amounts of money from this crisis by seeing which companies were going bust and which were going to be all right and that kind of thing.

Yeah, so those donations began in 2001.

And over the next nearly two decades, he gives about £200,000 to the Conservatives in dribs and drabs.

He seems to be sort of between Thailand and Britain then, and that's when the political nations start to the Conservatives.

And by 2011, we know that he's got Thai citizenship and his Thai name.

And his main base, as far as we can tell now, is Bangkok.

Right, well, he says it's something you're obliged to do when you take citizenship.

Oh, okay.

And he picked chakrit sakankrit, which means chakra has a sort of Sanskrit root and it means something like he who is awake or the watchful one.

Well, this is, I think, one of the most fascinating things about Chris Harbour.