Insider at investment fund RedBird says the ex-chancellor 'has failed to make this work'
Insider at investment fund RedBird says the ex-chancellor 'has failed to make this work'RedBird is an investment fund that is majority-backed by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, vice-president of the United Arab Emirates and owner of Manchester City Football Club.
“What Osborne has done is quite a remarkable achievement; there was a coalition against the deal stretching from Lee Anderson to Caroline Lucas. I take my hat off to him. Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith had also criticised Mr Osborne’s role, saying: “Many Conservative MPs hope that his arrival on the UAE side is enough to ensure the Government turns it down.”
He became a senior adviser at BlackRock, the US fund management giant, and gave up that job when he joined Robey Warshaw, advising on deals including the Todd Boehly-led consortium’s
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