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...Starmer has looked to Vince, along with two other big donors — supermarket scion Lord David Sainsbury and car glass repair millionaire Gary Lubner — to help fund his party after the Conservative government...
...Gary Lubner, who made hundreds of millions of pounds running the company behind Autoglass, told the Financial Times he wanted to give Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer financial help to put the party in power...
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor. Jim Pickard is the FT’s deputy political editor This piece was amended since publication to reflect that Gary Lubner moved to the UK 35 years ago....
...Sir Gary Streeter, a mainstream Tory MP for more than 30 years, said he was concerned his colleagues were starting to publicly fight over the future control of the party in anticipation of a heavy defeat...
...Its general secretary, Gary Smith, told the FT in May there was a “national security imperative” to keep the industry alive given Britain’s reliance on oil and gas....
...Hollinrake told MPs on Monday evening that retired judge Sir Gary Hickinbottom would chair an independent panel to assess compensation claims brought by sub-postmasters with overturned convictions where...
...In particular, we focus on three so-called megadonors who are giving £5bn each — that’s Dale Vince, Gary Lubner and David Sainsbury....
...I caught up with Sir Gary Streeter, a Tory MP whom I first met when he was elected in 1992 and I was working on the Western Morning News. He epitomises mainstream Tory backbench sentiment....
...Sir Gary Streeter, a veteran Tory MP who served as a whip in the dying days of John Major’s government, said that if colleagues did not fall into line the party was heading for “a 1997-scale defeat”....
...Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, said: “You can feel there’s a sense of momentum. Change is coming....
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London...
...identities of two of the three potential Labour “megadonors” are already known: Lord David Sainsbury, scion of the eponymous supermarket dynasty who was a minister in the New Labour government of the 2000s, and Gary...
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...However, Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, criticised surging “fat cat CEO pay” as “workers in sectors across the board were forced on to picket lines to make ends meet”....
...“I hope that the current situation between Gary Lineker and the BBC can be resolved in a timely manner, but it is rightly a matter for them, not the government.”...
...The lack of a more detailed response from the broadcaster has led to further criticism over its handling of these scandals, with several of the BBC’s best-known faces, including Gary Lineker and Jeremy Vine...
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor. Lucy Fisher is the FT’s Whitehall editor Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Gary Lineker, the BBC’s high-profile football presenter, said politics should be removed from the process....
...Starmer in the money As all the parties gear up for the expensive business of fighting an election next year, a hitherto little-known South African-born businessman, Gary Lubner, has opened his cheque book...
...Sir Gary Streeter, a longstanding Tory MP, said simply: “He is finished in politics full stop.”...
...Gary Lineker, the BBC’s football presenter, tweeted that politics should be taken out of the appointments process. “The BBC chairman should not be selected by the government of the day....
...“If the circus doesn’t stop by Christmas, it’s over,” says Sir Gary Streeter, a Tory MP since 1992. But for now, senior Tories believe they simply need a holiday....
...“I think it’s much more radical than people give him credit for,” says Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, a major donor to Labour....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Well, we’re joined in the studio now by George Parker, the FT’s political editor. Hi, George. George Parker Hi Lucy....
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