It's clearly difficult to disentangle yourself from GB News - Media Guardian reports that Andrew Neil engaged an employment lawyer as early as mid-July to help him get out of a four-year contract said to be worth £700,000 a year.
This might explain why others are slower in moving on. Is possible that Simon McCoy, for example, is working notice, rather than paying for the services of m'learned friends ?
Meanwhile it seems Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall has stepped forward to chair All Perspectives, the owners of GB News. Sir Paul made his money from hedge funds, and is said to have contributed £10m to the fledgling channel. Sir Paul, 62 (Merchant Taylor's Northwood, St John's College Oxford and Insead) dallied with support for the LibDems between 2002 and 2015, and fell out over Brexit. In 2016, he donated £3,250 to Michael Gove's leadership campaign; he was a non-exec at the Education Department during Gove's tenure there. Later in 2016, he gave £100,000 to the Leave campaign. In 2019, he gave £500,000 to the Conservative Party.
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