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Ian Greer
Ian Bramwell Greer (5 June 1933 – 4 November 2015) was a British political lobbyist whose career was affected by the cash-for-questions affair. Early life Ian Bramwell Greer was born on 5 June 1933, the son of Salvation Army parents. He was educated at Cranbrook College, Essex, and Victoria School, Glasgow. At the age of 24, Greer began working for the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, Conservative Central Office and became the party's youngest ever area agent at that time. In 1966, Greer left the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, Conservative Central Office in order to run the Mental Health Trust. In that capacity, Greer developed an initial list of political contacts in order to campaign for better conditions for those suffering from mental illness. Consultancy In 1970, Greer established a consultancy with John Russell. The partnership split after 10 years, with Greer going on to establish his own consultancy in 1982. According to Andy McSmith of The Independent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash-for-questions Affair
The "cash-for-questions affair" was a political scandal of the 1990s in the United Kingdom. It began in October 1994 when ''The Guardian'' newspaper alleged that London's most successful parliamentary lobbyist, Ian Greer of Ian Greer Associates, had bribed two Conservative Members of Parliament to ask parliamentary questions and perform other tasks on behalf of the Egyptian owner of Harrods department store, Mohamed Al-Fayed. Overview ''The Guardians report alleged that Al-Fayed had approached the paper and accused Ian Greer of paying then-MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith to table parliamentary questions on his behalf at £2,000 a time. Smith resigned immediately after admitting to accepting payments from Al-Fayed himself, but not from Greer as ''The Guardian'' had alleged. Hamilton and Greer immediately issued libel writs in the High Court against ''The Guardian'' to clear their names. The furore prompted the then-prime minister John Major to instigate the Nolan Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Al-Fayed (; arz, محمد الفايد ; born 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian-born businessman whose residence and chief business interests have been in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s. His business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods department store and Fulham F.C., both in London. In November 2022, Fayed's wealth was estimated at US$1.9 billion, ranking his wealth at no. 1,512 in the world. Fayed's son Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Khashoggi from 1954 to 1956, was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, when they both died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Fayed married Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén in 1985, with whom he also has four children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, and Omar. Early life Fayed was born in Roshdy, Alexandria, Egypt, the eldest son of an Egyptian primary school teacher from Asyut. His year of birth has been disputed. His website, alfayed.com,domain name verifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
