What was the repayment plan for this "loan"? And why did Boris Johnson need £800,000? What for? School fees? Even at Eton rates, not even he has more than 50 children. Does he?
As an aside, if this was only a credit facility, then Johnson could in principle have signed on if he had had no other income. You cannot be more than £9,000 in the black, but you can be as far into the red as anyone will let you go.
The point is that he did have at least two other incomes, his parliamentary and Prime Ministerial salaries, together amounting to nearly a quarter of a million pounds.
Yet, as the serving Prime Minster and thus required to pay for almost nothing out of his own pocket, he still needed this gargantuan personal piggy bank? What for?
Richard Sharp and Nadhim Zahawi are both Johnsonites rather than Tories; there may also be Trussites rather than Tories, but then again there may not be.
So the well and truly restored Tories are throwing both Sharp and Zahawi to the wolves. That's politics.
Chris Philp sent in to defend Zahawi, it's all over for him.
ReplyDeletePhilp's HGV training company went bust owing four million pounds to clients who were mostly long-term unemployed. Philp has also had a charity go under.
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