Greg Barker: the lord's work
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The House of Lords, a Russian Oligarch's Company
At the end of cameron's first term in 20 15, barker told the prime minister that he wanted to go back into business. Cameron gave him a seat in the house of lords to begin with. Barker took his role in the lords seriously. He voted more than 100 times in three years and gave four speeches. In october 20 17, he landed his biggest one yet as chairman of russian conglomerate e n plus,. His appointment raised eyebrows because he doesn't speak russian and had only spent two years in moscow two decades earlier. The bigger problem was that inplus was 70 % owned by oleg derip ska an, often from a village in southern russia
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