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Revealed: Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt

Tory hopefuls under fire for accepting cash from company linked to major ‘climate science denial’ group. Johnson has yet to declare the funding, ‘raising questions about who else is bankrolling him’.

By Peter Geoghegan
Revealed: Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt
Hunt, Johnson and Cameron | Yui Mok/PA Archive/PA Images
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A prominent climate change sceptic’s company has donated £25,000 each to both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt’s leadership campaigns, openDemocracy has discovered.

Johnson and Hunt are widely seen as favourites to emerge as the final two contenders once Tory MPs begin voting on a successor to Theresa May on Thursday. Both candidates have declared over £100,000 in donations in recent weeks.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s largest donation was £25,000 on May 22 from First Corporate Shipping, according to the register of MPs’ interests. First Corporate Shipping is the trading name of Bristol Port, which is co-owned by Tory donors Terence Mordaunt and Sir David Ord.

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