Back for the final session today of Banks v Cadwalladr. McCormick is resuming his cross examination of Cadwalladr about Banks contact with the Russian embassy betwee Nov 2016, and November 2017
*Between. Now we’re looking at an article Cadwalladr wrote in the Observer about Electoral Commission’s inquiry in November 2017.
Cadwalladr’s article is about the wash of dirty money into London, and people “financially benefiting” from the Brexit vote. It references a number of people, including Mr Banks and Bad Boys of Brexit and the Oleg character who introduced him into the Embassy
“This is week we discovered the FBI investigation into Trump London had started in London” Cadwalladr explains, the article references Matthew Elliott and how he was targeted by a Russian influence campaign
McCormick asks if Cadwalladr had noted the discrepancy in lunches Banks’ statement by the time she wrote the article. Cadwalladr replies she hadn’t made much of it, and it was “settled”, the “sole contact was one boozy lunch” according to Banks’ statement to the Electoral Com
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