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Marcus Leroux
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Journalist at SourceMaterial (@source_mat) We work with mainstream media on public interest investigations. Banner: detail of a ceramic work by Olive Leroux
Jan 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A small development on the Nadhim Zahawi story: we can say categorically that he has an expensive mortgage with an offshore business owned by his parents. The Bank of Mum and Dad in a very literal and quite unusual sense. [a short thread] In July I asked the authorities in Gibraltar why two businesses linked to Zahawi had not disclosed their ultimate owners. Zahawi had he was not the beneficiary of either Balshore Investments or Berkford Investments.
Nov 28, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Our latest investigation is on the relationship between a major Tory donor and Rosneft, the Kremlin's oil company. But let's start in November 2019 with a 333-metre oil tanker approaching Venezuela... and then turning off its satellite tracking. [1/x] public.flourish.studio/visualisation/… Turning off or falsifying satellite transponders is No.1 on the US Treasury's list of "evasive shipping practices" for sanctions dodging. So what was the tanker Delta Glory up to?
Jul 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Earlier this month I did a bit of digging into two offshore businesses linked to Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor. One was Balshore Investments, which @DanNeidle has forensically looked at here: The other was Berkford Investments, which lent Zahawi money to buy stables and a second home in Warwickshire for £875,000 in 2011. Zahawi has said that he takes "no involvement in Berkford's decision making process".
Sep 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a superb piece of work by @SJAMcBride. Cummins has published a sprawling, blustering response on his website. The response does contain one elucidating comment, though. 1/n belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column… Cummins says: "de facto risk of truly dying very prematurely from Covid19 in Northern Ireland has been effectively near-zero", citing this chart from Euromomo.
Jun 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"No 10 appears to realise that at some point opponents and voters will start asking when the Brexit dividend is going to turn up". Iain Martin asks a good question here. [short thread] thetimes.co.uk/article/how-th… I asked the same question - what burdens Brussels regulation should we ditch now we were leaving the EU - when I was covering trade for The Times. I asked John Longworth, chair of Vote Leave's business committee, what red tape should be first for the bonfire.
Mar 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
You have to applaud @ClaireByrneLive for seeking out thoughtful, fresh voices - like @andrew_trimble and @Saraita101 - to complement the more predictable routines. A couple of quick thoughts... rte.ie/news/claire-by… First, it was repeatedly suggested, by Mary Lou McDonald and Claire Byrne herself, that opinion polls are moving closer to showing support in Northern Ireland for a United Ireland. Even using the most charitable polling available (LucidTalk), that isn't the case.
Jan 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pigs, it turns out, can't fly.

Brexit Britain is finding out about trade gravity and non-tariff barriers the hard way.

Remember, ham-fisted EU regulations were supposedly blocking British pig farmers from the Chinese market. thetimes.co.uk/article/sellin…
May 23, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The men who want to break up Britain? What Arron Banks sent to Nigel Farage on EU referendum night. (Taken Arron Banks's book). Of course Nigel Farage says he's a unionist. But then he goes and says things like "Let's get out of the European Union and then have an honest debate about the future of Scotland." independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Nov 4, 2018 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
I’ve just read the transcript of Arron Banks’s Marr appearance. Some thoughts below. (A health warning: whatever Banks says, his corporate structures are highly convoluted. This is why he has struggled on occasion to explain them himself.) The transcript is here. Banks is keen to avoid any suggestion that Rock Holdings – one of his two Isle of Man holding companies – had anything to do with his Brexit campaign, because the IoM is not a legal source for donations. news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h…
Aug 25, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Leave aside the lunatic it'll-be-just-like-the-troubles stuff and Rees-Mogg's comments remain a towering heap of idiotic misconceptions.
Border inspections would "ensure there wasn’t a great loophole in the way people could get into the UK to leave us in just a bad a position as we are currently in".
So there is mass migration from the EU because citizens are physically allowed to come here?
Nov 13, 2017 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Liam Fox is crusading on behalf of African coffee producers who the victims of EU/German protectionism
telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/… Dr Fox's prognosis has a rather fundamental flaw. Almost all coffee in Africa (at least 92%) is produced by countries that have tariff-free trade with EU on roast coffee.