The hereditary knight who once worked for Robert Maxwell: Why work of Rishi Sunak's new ethics chief Sir Laurie Magnus may prove controversial

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The hereditary knight who once worked for Robert Maxwell: Why work of Rishi Sunak's new ethics chief Sir Laurie Magnus may prove controversial
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Rishi Sunak has appointed a new ethics adviser whose long business career involved links with disgraced retail tycoon Sir Philip Green and the late Robert Maxwell. Analysis from JonCraig 👇

So Mr Sunak has turned to a former merchant banker who serves on half a dozen quangos and whose long business career involved links with disgraced retail tycoon Sir Philip Green and the late tycoon Robert Maxwell.

Sir Laurie's quango CV includes the chairmanship of Historic England, a former trustee of the conservation charity the Landmark Trust, ex-chair of the National Trust, membership of the Culture Recovery Fund, a trustee of English Heritage Trust and deputy chair of the All Churches Trust. "Laurie Magnus is very much a member of the City's great and the good," a senior Square Mile insider reveals."He was a director of Samuel Montagu, one of the oldest of what we used to call merchant banks, more than 30 years ago. He's very much a patrician character.

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