Dominic Johnson? Any bells? Nothing? And yet we find Johnson, a party donor now in use as an “investment minister”, playing what he intended to be a decisive role in a media tragicomedy that has set Tory against Tory, peer against peer, and, in an agonising twist, hedge funder against hedge funder: the sale to the United Arab Emirates of the Telegraph.
That newspaper, founded in 1855, is regarded, or disregarded, as a “so-called treasured asset” by Dominic Johnson CBE, as he styles himself on X. A Liz Truss peerage followed Johnson’s gong from David Cameron (coincidentally, he’d lent him a house); perhaps as a never-elected minister Lord Johnson of Lainston considers the civilian designation carries more weight.
