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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nick Cohen

No one is safe from the rich elite’s abuse of British law. Just ask Charlotte Leslie

Charlotte Leslie, director of the Conservative Middle East Council, has been sent scores of legal letters after challenging Tory donor Mohamed Amersi.
Charlotte Leslie, director of the Conservative Middle East Council, has been sent scores of legal letters after challenging Tory donor Mohamed Amersi. Photograph: Sam Frost

Charlotte Leslie has been hit with threats that would have broken a lesser woman. The former Conservative MP for Bristol North West crossed a Tory donor, Mohamed Amersi. Now she has learned what journalists and whistleblowers already know: when you challenge the moneyed elite, oligarchical Britain’s legal system will throw you into “a world of pain”.

“We both know you’re in a great deal of trouble,” Carl Hunter OBE, a party fixer and adviser to Tory ministers told her in February 2020. “I think you need to consider your position, as in being able to walk the dog at night, being able to sleep well at night.”

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