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Revealed: P&O Ferries using PR firm favoured by oligarchs and Putin allies

New Century Media, which has donated to the Conservative Party, will try to sanitise P&O’s profile following brutal sacking of 800 staff

By Martin Williams
Revealed: P&O Ferries using PR firm favoured by oligarchs and Putin allies
A P&O cross-channel ferry approaches Calais
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The ferry firm that sacked 800 people yesterday is using a PR firm that has also advised oligarchs and Kremlin allies to clean up its image, openDemocracy can reveal.

P&O Ferries has partnered with New Century Media for advice on public relations.

The PR business, which is run by former Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside, has donated more than £200,000 to the Conservative Party. It has previously worked for an array of Russian businesses and top oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin. P&O’s parent firm DP World is also directing journalists’ enquiries to New Century Media.

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