My Little Crony Profile picture
May 2, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read Read on X
🔍 POWER VACUUM: A closer look at the PM's connections to James Dyson.

Let's start at the beginning... 🧵
Back in 2016, the PM's brother Jo Johnson was Minister for Universities and Science.

When James Dyson complained to him about the "engineering skills crisis" in the UK, Jo Johnson encouraged him to set up his own higher education provider.
This encouragement seems to have been quite significant... Jo Johnson is explicitly credited on the Dyson Institute's website!
(Along with photos of the pair of them gazing lovingly at machinery, and pretending to dig up some grass while a group of teens watch.)
In 2018, Jo Johnson gets shuffled over to a new role as Minister of Transport and Minister of London. He resigns at the end of the year because he supported a people's vote on the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Fortunately, in 2019, his brother takes over as PM and Jo Johnson lands back in cabinet as... Minister for Universities!

A few months later, he resigns again, citing "unresolvable tension".
But Jo Johnson wouldn't be out of work for long. After standing down as an MP in the December 2019 election, he waits just a couple of months before taking a cushy job as non-executive director at... the Dyson Institute!

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/107012…
The leaked text message exchange between Boris Johnson and James Dyson happened in March 2020 - just one month after Dyson gave Boris Johnson's unemployed brother a job! bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
Curiously, even though Companies House lists Jo Johnson as being appointed to the Dyson Institute in February 2020, the ACOBA letter reviewing his appointment is dated April 2020: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Our interactive map has been updated to reflect the Jo Johnson / James Dyson links... #mylittlecrony
You can find all of this - and more! - in the usual place:

mylittlecrony.com

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with My Little Crony

My Little Crony Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(