Mega-loaded Boris Johnson donor is now backing Labour to ‘put the terrific back again in Britain’

A MILLIONAIRE Boris Johnson donor has backed Labour to “put the great again in Britain.”

Telephones4U founder John Caudwell handed the Tories £500,000 in 2019 but stated Rishi Sunak is an “absolute dud”.

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John Caudwell is now backing Labour soon after handing the Tories £500,000 in 2019Credit rating: Reuters

Very last evening he included Sir Keir Starmer was his new dude even with as soon as stating Reform insurance policies “sound wise.”

Nevertheless he stopped small of indicating he would be opening his chequebook to Labour in advance of July 4’s election.

In a assertion he stated: “For a lot of many years now I have been somewhat despairing about the functionality of the party that I have supported for the past 51 a long time: the Tories.

“Only 5 yrs in the past, I donated fifty percent a million to the Conservatives to aid avert the disaster that would have been Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Avenue.

“Over the previous two a long time particularly, I have been surprised by how Keir Starmer has remodeled the Labour Social gathering and introduced it again from that Corbyn brink.

“When Labour released its manifesto past Thursday, I was delighted to see that accelerating financial progress was entrance and centre, and that projected expansion is clearly tied into creating Britain a cleanse power superpower.

“So, I can declare publicly that I will vote for Labour, and I really encourage most people to do the exact.

“We want a extremely solid Labour Federal government that can just take particularly bold conclusions and you can rest certain that I will be executing my greatest to impact them anywhere I can, in placing the fantastic again in Britain.”

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