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John Caudwell

John Caudwell

Businessman and investor

Sep 13, 2026

7:52
I take it you can completely understand why rich men give to political parties.
7:58
Well, I don't know whether I can understand or not.
8:02
Let's look at the facts there that two crypto billionaires have given the biggest donation ever to influence the outcome of British politics.
8:13
I don't think that's healthy at all.
8:15
I don't know what the motive is.
8:16
I can't understand the motive at all other than hopefully in their case, presumably currying some favor in the future.
8:25
And I'm very much against that.
10:58
Do you think there should be a change to the law that's going through Parliament?
9:51
Mm-hmm
9:51
... and providing that those jobs were in a, uh, were higher paid than the average in the UK.
9:58
So we encourage higher paid jobs, we encourage more employment, which creates then a more competitive environment, environment for employees and creates more opportunities, and it's a virtuous circle.
10:11
And they're paying corporation tax at a massively reduced rate, but it's corporation tax we would've never got.
10:16
Now, how do you attract those businesses apart from reduced corporation tax? There's lots of other ways about that, reducing bureaucracy and so on.
10:23
But the other way you do it is by when people come to live in the UK, knowing they've got a stable government with stable policies, and knowing that they, they've got a reasonably friendly tax environment for their exit of their business, the growth of their business or whatever.
10:39
Now, of course, what Labour have done, reducing BPR, uh, the way they've h- the agricultural property relief, the, uh, the, uh, ta- all the taxations, it, it's all designed to damage the wealthy.

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