The Sunday Times 21 Jun 2020

2 The Sunday Times June 21, 2020 NEWS This week in Former Met chief linked to court case over bugging of Ritz owner The Sunday Times Jon Ungoed-Thomas recorded. Quest Global, part children of his twin brother, Alex May, a researcher Stevens was found to have for a commercial purpose, of a London investigative Sir David. The twins own the from Manchester who writes breached the Lords’ code of there is no lawful basis for Also on our phone app, A firm of private investigators group headed by Stevens, Telegraph Media Group and a an investigative blog, said he conduct and offered a that.” headed by the former invoiced for 405 hours to string of other businesses. had complained to the ICO. “wholehearted” apology. Stevens, 77, was the Met’s on tablet and online at Metropolitan police listen to and transcribe the Sir Frederick and his He said: “This is a covert Lawyers described the commissioner between 2000 commissioner Lord Stevens recordings, according to daughter Amanda are suing surveillance that breached conservatory where Barclay and 2004. thesundaytimes.co.uk faces an inquiry by the evidence in a court judgment. Sir David’s sons Alistair, privacy laws and may have was bugged as “semi-public”. The Quest group is privacy watchdog over a It is also alleged it provided Aidan and Howard, along recorded third parties, and it Jonathan Kirsop, a partner at described as “a global bugging operation at the Ritz a wi-fi bug. It faces a with Aidan’s son Andrew, for needs to be investigated by the legal firm Pinsent advisory firm that enables hotel in London. complaint to the Information invasion of privacy, breach of the regulator.” Masons, said there would be private and public sector The billionaire Sir Commissioner’s Office (ICO). confidence and breach of May said ICO records show “no conceivable justification” clients to respond to a range Frederick Barclay was The High Court judgment data-protection laws. that Quest Global was for holding information on of security and integrity THE FUNDAY TIMES secretly recorded at the hotel, last month said the A defence document registered as a data handler third parties who were issues”. It did not respond to which members of his family investigation firm still held 50 concedes that the bugging only from March this year, recorded without their a request for comment. owned until three months hours of covert recordings, breached the Data Protection after the bug was discovered. knowledge. The ICO said it did not ago, after a bug was planted which may include “third Act 2018 and the general May previously filed a Clive Mackintosh, a data- keep information in its HOME by his nephew Alistair. party data”. protection data regulation. It complaint against Stevens in protection lawyer at Harper register on the categories of It has been alleged in the The bugging, which took said: “The defendants accept January for not properly James Solicitors, said: “Your information Quest Global was CLASSROOM High Court that the operation place between last November that the claimants are entitled disclosing his interests in the right to privacy doesn’t just authorised to process under Don’t miss this breached data-protection and January, was part of a to compensation.” Quest House of Lords register, rest at home, but extends to data protection laws, and week’s education laws and other people may falling-out between Sir Global is not a defendant in including his stake in Quest wherever you are. So if you declined to comment further. also have been unwittingly Frederick, 85, and the the proceedings. Global’s holding company. are being secretly recorded @JonUngoedThomas supplement. Party with Paddington, go wild with Ben Fogle and try Bobby Seagull’s quiz FATHER’S DAY GOES WITH A SWING THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE HOME & TRAVEL Disgraced A MIDSUMMER DAY’S DREAM bank boss’s When celebrating the solstice, Sweden really goes to town — or rather £50,000 gift to the countryside. Expect garlands, aquavit — and frogs to Tories NEWS REVIEW The donation, officially crisis in 2011, saying: “There was a period of remorse and apology. I think that made by Bob Diamond’s period needs to be over.” I KNEW MEGHAN Diamond was forced to resign in 2012 family, was delayed until after the Bank of England governor at the WAS TROUBLE after the election to time, Sir Mervyn King, told the board that Lady Colin Campbell avoid awkward questions the central bank had lost confidence in has written a gossipy Barclays’ chief executive after the Libor- rigging fine. Diamond, who always felt he book about the Oliver Shah Business Editor had been knifed by the British Establish- Duchess of Sussex. It ment, having been encouraged to pay the doesn’t matter that The family of the investment banker who fine ahead of other banks involved in the was ousted as chief executive of Barclays scandal, told an interviewer the next she’s never met her, in the wake of the Libor-rigging scandal year: “My first reaction, which is still my she tells Rosie Kinchen quietly pledged £50,000 to Boris John- reaction today, is: he doesn’t have the son during December’s election — but authority to do that.” delayed the gift until February to avoid After stepping down, he was publicly awkward headlines during the campaign. criticised by both the Conservatives and MAGAZINE Bob Diamond, who was forced to Labour, prompting his daughter, Nell, to resign in 2012, days after Barclays paid a tweet that “George Osborne and Ed £290m fine for rigging the interbank Miliband you can go ahead and #HMD” — lending rate, donated the sum to the slang for “hold my dick”. LOCKDOWN Conservative Party on February 20, Diamond’s donation to the Tories was according to the Electoral Commission. seized upon by Labour yesterday. Wes LUNCHES A source said that Diamond, who lives Streeting, shadow exchequer secretary Tom Kerridge in New York but retains UK citizenship, to the Treasury, said: “It tells you every- pledged to give the Tories the money as thing you need to know about Boris John- revolutionises your they were preparing to do battle with Jer- son’s government that a man who Prince George, 6, top, Princess Charlotte, 5, and Prince Louis, 2, appear to have resisted DIY working-from-home emy Corbyn three months earlier, but resigned in disgrace at the height of the haircuts. A picture at Anmer Hall, their Norfolk home, to mark Prince William’s 38th birthday meals, including seared waited to transfer it. Libor banking scandal is handing over today — Father’s Day— shows their locks are longer than the last time they were seen in April. The donation was made by Diamond’s vast sums of money to support them now. tuna salad with soy and son, who is also called Robert Edward It seems the unacceptable face of banking ginger, and five-minute Diamond and also has UK citizenship. isn’t unacceptable to the Tories now.” broccoli pesto salad The Electoral Commission publishes Diamond’s family is understood to information about donations and loans have made political donations in the past, four times a year — at the end of February, although none has become public until Chicken factory closed after May, August and November. now. He voted remain in the 2016 Brexit BUSINESS & MONEY Diamond, 68, was a controversial fig- referendum, but is said to have decided ure during his 16 years at Barclays, which to help the Tories because he came to the 75 staff test positive for Covid culminated in 18 tumultuous months as view that a clean break with Brussels was chief executive. He built Barclays into an best for the UK and that Johnson was the Thomas Hornall process samples taken from to other sites until next MONTHS OF investment banking powerhouse capable leader to deliver it. employees.” month. Dr Christopher of competing with Wall Street’s giants, Diamond was an admirer of Johnson Seventy-five cases of A separate cluster of cases Johnson, consultant in health MAYHEM swooping on stricken rival Lehman when the latter was running City Hall, coronavirus have been centred on the Kober meat protection for Public Health Brothers during the 2008 financial crisis. serving as a trustee of his Mayor’s Fund confirmed at a chicken processing plant in Wales, said: “The system is The Bank of England He was regularly criticised for the size for London and persuading Barclays to processing plant in north Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, working as it should — we are and Treasury were of his pay packets, including £17m in 2011, sponsor the cheap rental bicycles that Wales. Production was halted was confirmed by its owner actively screening employees plunged into crisis 15 and was branded “the unacceptable face became known as Boris Bikes. Since leav- at the 2 Sisters factory in Asda on Friday. and this is helping us to of banking” by Labour’s business secre- ing Barclays, he has founded Atlas Mer- Llangefni, Anglesey, on The 2 Sisters Food Group identify contacts of weeks ago. Jill Treanor tary at the time, Lord Mandelson, chant Capital, which invests in financial Thursday and staff told to said the first reported positive individuals who have tested and Peter Evans tell the although the two later became friendly. services companies in America and self-isolate for two weeks. case was on May 28. positive.” inside story of the Diamond put on a defiant perform- Europe, including the stockbroker Pan- Public Health Wales said: Production at the factory, Customers for 2 Sisters Covid-19 emergency ance during a parliamentary inquiry into mure Gordon, and Atlas Mara, which “This number is expected to where 560 people are include supermarkets, KFC bonus culture and the banks’ role in the does the same across sub-Saharan Africa.

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