Peter McIlvenna
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And that's why he moved to Monaco a few years ago, bought Manchester United, probably the biggest football team in the world and soccer team in the world.
And he bought that maybe four or five years ago and had been really interested in sports, had bought in some French teams, and he bought a 25% stake in Manchester United.
Hasn't been in the public eye at all.
I think during the Brexit debate, during that getting us out of the European Union campaign,
He probably gave one or two comments that he was actually Eurosceptic.
He was pro Brexit, pro leaving, but wasn't a big player at all.
I mean, I don't recognize him or remember him at all speaking.
And I knocked on thousands of doors during that campaign.
And suddenly he comes and he says this on a Sky interview, which is strange because he normally has stayed under the radar.
uber successful businessman and has done everything quietly.
He doesn't want the spotlight.
I don't think I've ever seen an interview from Jim Ratcliffe ever before.
And that is the curious part of this, that he is not a politician.
He doesn't have anything to gain.
He is just...
Can you say a normal bloke if you're worth $40 billion?
But he sees what is happening to the country.
He is a huge concern.
And he is speaking up.
And Sky News back in the day, when they were owned by Fox, back, back, back, actually, it would have been a voice of reason.