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. increase as we continue to employed, will be transferred and Marks & Spencer. STYLE auctioned off the planning who grew up on a sheep they do, they let their fear of Minister system to a billionaire donor farm. saying the wrong thing get in at a Conservative Party Brits now Yet behind the cuddly ‘Why am the way.” WINONA RYDER fundraising dinner. cartoon images lies a Despite his own success, saw video “If that’s the case, this is a long-running struggle by he believes the institutional An exclusive interview major breach of public trust fatter British pig farmers to keep I never barriers that have “kept F1 with the Hollywood as well as the rules that their businesses alive. highly exclusive and elitist rebel, who has enjoyed on phone govern ministers’ behaviour.” The size of the UK pig persist”. He writes: “It is not Reed has written to Jenrick than pigs industry has shrunk to 60% of British enough to point to me, or a renaissance, thanks to asking when he told civil its size 20 years ago as excitedly point to a single Stranger Things, and of tycoon servants about the dinner. It farmers grappled with new black hire, as a has another hit box-set can be revealed that three outbreaks of disease, higher enough?’ meaningful example of executives from Northern & feed prices, environmental progress. contender on her hands Shell, the Desmond firm regulations, higher animal “Thousands of people are behind the scheme, and the welfare standards and market employed across the motor →Continued from page 1 head of development for →Continued from page 1 disruption linked to Brexit. →Continued from page 1 sport industry and that group the clip, the minister said: Mace, the construction giant professor of metabolic The National Pig triggered a sense of deep needs to be more FIND US ON “I’m sorry Richard. I can’t which is set to build it, sat at medicine at Oxford Association, representing pain, anguish and frustration. representative of society.” discuss it.” Desmond’s table. University. If pigs could talk farmers, is worried by the It led to “a global Recent weeks, he said, had Desmond added: “That Jenrick told MPs last week they might well tell each prospect of any trade deal awakening to the systemic inspired him to foster a new was the end of it. But the poor that it was “not unusual” for other “You look as fat as a with the United States that racism witnessed and purpose: promoting equal bloke’s getting pilloried.” ministers to overrule human”. might bring an influx of experienced by every person access to education. ANY SECTIONS MISSING? He instead blamed Sadiq planning officials. But The association between cheap American pork. of colour across the world, “Education is the leveller, Khan, alleging that the analysis reveals it was the first pigs and fatness – often but Farmers also have to compete and something that is only the path to opportunity,” he If your paper is incomplete we will send you the missing London mayor had privately of 27 decisions made during not always pejorative - dates with the current vogue for too familiar to me.” writes. “According to a recent section(s) subject to availability. Telephone 020 7711 1521 or backed the scheme before his tenure in which he has back centuries and featured plant-based “faux pork” He is expected to “take the study, black children are email your details to: [email protected] doing a U-turn. He said rejected advice to give a in one of Aesop’s lesser products, notably vegan knee” when F1 returns to three times more likely with Missing in the subject. Jenrick was a “pro-building project the go-ahead. known fables, The Ass and the bacon. Austria next month in a than white kids to be minister” while Khan’s His spokesman said: “Mr Pig. Meanwhile, more of public display of his support suspended, and those from NEWSPAPERS SUPPORT RECYCLING conduct was “crap”. Jenrick and the applicants In George Orwell’s Animal Britain’s pigs are moving for the BLM movement. disadvantaged backgrounds The recycled paper content of UK The extent of Jenrick’s were put on the same table Farm, the tyrants in charge outdoors, with 40% of the Hamilton is mixed race, are most likely to have their newspapers in 2019 was 63.2% proximity to Desmond, at a for the dinner, although Mr included a “small, fat pig nation’s herd now kept with a black British father, work marked down due to key moment in the planning Jenrick was not aware of this named Squealer, with very outside. Anthony, and a white mother, unconscious bias.” process, will reignite the prior to arriving at the venue. round cheeks”. Perhaps ironically, leaner Carmen Larbalestier. Hamilton grew up in LOTTERY RESULTS “cash-for-favours” row The planning application was In more recent decades cuts of pork are now to be “I’m used to the idea that Stevenage, Hertfordshire, caused by his decision, with raised, but Mr Jenrick said it pigs have emerged as a staple reclassified by Public Health no one will speak up for me and attended the John Henry Labour suggesting he may would not be appropriate to of children’s fiction — from England as low-fat food — when I face racism, because Newman School, where he SATURDAY SATURDAY FRIDAY have broken the ministerial discuss the matter or for him the adventures of Piglet, suitable for humans hoping to no one personally feels or struggled with dyslexia. JUNE 20 code. Steve Reed, shadow to pass comment on it.” Winnie the Pooh’s chum, to become as thin as a pig. understands my experience,” 7, 21, 26, 30, 40, 48 communities secretary, said: the BBC’s Pinky and Perky he writes. “Most of the time, I won’t be silenced on Bonus 15 “It looks like Mr Jenrick He got the gist, page 7 and then to Babe, the pig Editorial, page 22 they don’t even see it and if racism, Sport, pages 16-17