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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’

Tice rests his chin on his hand, looking down with a furrowed brow
Richard Tice is suing the National Crime Agency. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock

Richard Tice has been accused by Labour’s Bridget Phillipson of mounting a “deeply chilling attempt to silence the free press” after he sent a legal threat to the Guardian over its reporting on his financial affairs.

Lawyers for Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, singled out a Guardian correspondent for her journalism about a series of Tice’s financial transactions that were referred to the National Crime Agency.

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