Phones4U founder John Caudwell tells i he recently met Keir Starmer ahead of Monday's investment summit
Phones4U founder John Caudwell tells i he recently met Keir Starmer ahead of Monday's investment summit
“This group of people will be unfairly impacted by the phasing out of the non-dom tax regime, and I am against it,” says the businessman, whose official residence is in the UK where he pays tax. John Caudwell, 72, was born in Birimingham in 1952 but grew up in Stoke-on-Trent. After leaving school he worked at a Michelin tyre factory before founding Phones4U – orginally known as Midlands Mobile Phones – in 1987. The mobile phone retailer, which began with a stock of 26 mobile phones, was sold to a private equity firm in 2006 for £1.47bn. Caudwell’s wealth is estimated at £1.
“But, look, if I were writing the rules for politicians today then I’d have it that no politician would be allowed to take a penny in anything whatsoever, unless it was for the benefit of the nation. And then stepping over the mark would also be a criminal offence.” A still from series six of The Crown which used Caudwell’s yacht, The Titania, for filming scenes set aboard Mohamed Al-Fayed’s yacht Photographer: Daniel Escale/NetflixWe move onto whether Caudwell will make a political donation to Labour given he gave £500,000 to the Conservative Party ahead of the 2019 election, a move he says he made because he “deeply feared” for the future of the country if the then opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell came to...
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