Boris Johnson: The six million pound man episode 2
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The Conservatives' Annual Fundraising Event at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Ben Elliot, co-chairman of the party and a key member of Boris Johnson's team sat on the board as a trustee. He'd been a trustee since 2017, having been reappointed by Boris Johnson in January 2021 for another four-year term. Amid questions about whether the event was a misuse of his position at the museum, trustees have to follow a code of conduct stipulating they should be politically impartial. The fundraiser attracted its usual mix of high and low-profile donors. Lubov-Chnerkin was there, she's the former wife of Vladimir Chnerkin, a minister under Vladimir Putin in the early noughties. She's also an investment banker who has given
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