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Ruth Mosalski

Alun Cairns advised private equity firm on £1.3bn project before taking £30,000-a-year second job

Former Welsh secretary Alun Cairns provided advice to a private equity firm before he took on a £30,000-a-year role with the same company.

Mr Cairns, who is Conservative MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, quit as Welsh secretary in November 2019 after he had initially denied knowing a Tory Welsh assembly candidate had made claims about a woman's sexual history in a rape trial in April 2018, causing the case to collapse before an email showing he knew about it a year previously.

Mr Cairns was re-elected in the General Election the following month.

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