Wednesday, April 21, 2021

UK PM under fire for Covid text messages with Brexit businessman

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is refusing to apologise over private text messages that reveal he offered tax privileges to British businessman Sir James Dyson, insisting he did the "entirely the right thing."


Mr Dyson, who moved his appliances company to Singapore two years ago during Brexit negotiations, was asked to help the UK in their effort to get more ventilators as the pandemic took hold last March.


But Mr Johnson assured the business mogul that the project would not affect his company's tax status, sparking outrage among opposition parties.


From London, Milly Martin reports.  


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