Key Highlights
- Shocked to learn that a tax-exiled English expat who made his billions squeezing chemicals plants doesn’t have liberal, let alone accurate, views on immigration.
- Or at least, in public anyway. It seems highly likely Sir Jim Ratcliffe knew what he was doing in the course of his now semi-recanted Sky News interview.
- And it is above all vital that at least one part of his empire of influence – football, sport, Manchester United – rejects it, as the club have done to some extent in their statement. Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial Read moreWhen Ratcliffe bought his stake in United he made some initial attempts at presenting himself as a kind of billionaire of the people, our own clog-clapping son of the cobbles, Eccles cakes tumbling from his turn-ups, essentially on a mission of benevolent regeneration. In reality Ratcliffe was always here to sack the tea lady.
- Ineos has a highly successful set of methods.
- Strip it back.
