A billionaire US hedge fund executive and major donor to US Republican candidates invested £1m in a British company owned by a Conservative peer who was close at the time to the then prime minister, Boris Johnson.
Kenneth Griffin, the founder of Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, made the personal investment in 2020 in a company set up by Lord Howard of Rising, a Conservative peer whose Westminster mansion served as Johnson’s leadership campaign “nerve centre” a year earlier.
