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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Isaac

How the tide turned against the CBI’s director general

Tony Danker
Tony Danker at the CBI’s annual conference in 2022. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

The director general of Britain’s most prominent lobby group is not leaving quietly. On Tuesday morning, hours after learning of his dismissal from the Confederation of British Industry, Tony Danker posted a series of tweets in which he revealed he was “shocked” at the decision, which followed allegations of misconduct.

Some present and former staff did not share in his sense of surprise, they told the Guardian, four weeks after this newspaper first revealed the allegations against him.

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