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Time to pay the bills for Boris Johnson. The prime minister, who according to his own sister could be receiving pressure from donors to his campaign that invested in favor of a Brexit without agreement, begins to compensate for the more than 264,000 euros he received in just two weeks to sponsor his career towards Conservative party leadership.

During the process in which both he and Jeremy Hunt departed as favorites, hundreds of thousands of euros were raised in donations from powerful entrepreneurs , although no other candidate got as much money as he did. The contributions, made based on the promises that one and the other made about the future they wanted for the country, could, once they got the job, tie them hand and foot and force them to make statements like that of the "Brexit yes or yes the October 31, "despite reports pointing out that its consequences would be disastrous.

"Do not you think that the fact that the prime minister feeds the fear of non-agreement, which benefits his friends and donors, could be seen as a conflict of interest according to any scale and contrary to any ministerial code ?" He asked. recently in the House of Commons John McDonnell, chancellor in the shadow, arousing government rejection. The opposition, which is already mobilized with the matter, has requested that an investigation be opened as soon as possible to clarify the situation.

And is not for less. Between October 1 of last year and June 10, 2019, Boris Johnson received, according to the official website of the British Parliament, 541,000 euros and an interest-free loan of another 22,000 for donations . Of the total amount, 264,000 received them between May 28 and June 10, just four days after Theresa May announced her resignation and just three days after she carried it out.

"We are seeing an Executive so determined to get Brexit in any of its forms, so focused on reaching that promised land, that he will do anything to justify getting it," says Rachel Johnson, the premier's sister, who leaves the possibility open to external and internal pressures . "It could be his advisor, Dominic Cummings, or even my own brother, who enjoys his position, although they may also be people who have invested billions against the pound with the expectation that there will be an exit without agreement . We do not know".

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Crispin Odey, owner of an important investment fund and an estimated fortune of 870 million euros, has shortly positioned itself in shares of large companies in the United Kingdom , such as Royal Mail or Metro Bank, worth 336 million euros, in addition to against the British currency, which expects to collapse if the country leaves the EU without agreement. The success of these selling positions, which allow you to speculate on the future price of the shares in these companies, will depend largely on Johnson being able to keep his word on October 31.

Odey, who has recently come to describe as "a silly" insinuations about his possible pressures to the prime minister, donated 11,220 euros to Johnson's campaign and in the past has contributed more than one million euros in various proBrexit movements.

The Bristol Port Company, which participated with 28,000 euros, has secured a grant of 112,000 to carry out its "preparations for Brexit", despite the fact that in January they published a memorandum ensuring that they were ready for departure.

Ayman Asfari, who according to the electoral commission has donated more than 965,000 euros to the conservative party during the last decade, has already benefited from his good relationship with the torys when receiving his company a guarantee of 822 million euros of money to shield a contract in Oman of 1.8 billion euros.

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