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...In the final quarter of the year, Labour received more than £1mn each from South African businessman Gary Lubner and Dale Vince, founder of green energy provider Ecotricity....
...Under Blair, Sainsbury’s daughter Fran Perrin, acted as an adviser in Downing Street (Perrin became Labour’s biggest ever female donor last year with a £1mn gift)....
...Labour, by contrast, only received £3mn of donations, including £500,000 from former Autoglass boss Gary Lubner and £362,625 from Unite the Union....
...In Nashville, Kalwin Perrin knows what this is like....
...Ann Perrins, vice-president of upstream resourcing at BP, says: “Today, we are contractually obligated to meet localisation targets in certain regions....
...Like many of the society’s members, this pastry chef-turned-chocolatier has links with the UK’s top chefs: his award-winning chocolates are served in Gary Rhodes’ restaurants....
...“A lot of them have cash, or at least easy access to it, which you just don’t see with the local buyer anymore,” said Gary Patrick, London sales director for Barratt....
...Towers Perrin, the professional services company, is equally gloomy....
...In 1998 Mr Perrin, then a lawyer aged in his mid-20s, formed a syndicate with his brother Scott and Gary Pemberton, a former Qantas chairman, that bought out the Billabong stake belonging to co-founder Rena...
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