Lakshmi Mittal gave £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s Tory leadership campaign years after donating millions to Labour
- Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal donated over £4million to Tony Blair’s Labour party
- Decided to give £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s Tory leadership campaign
- Mr Mittal is the chairman and chief executive of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company
By Jack Doyle Associate Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 21:00 EDT, 31 July 2019 | Updated: 21:00 EDT, 31 July 2019
A steel magnate who donated millions of pounds to New Labour gave £10,000 to Boris Johnson’s Tory leadership campaign, it emerged last night.
Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, who is one of Britain’s richest men, donated more than £4million to Labour when Tony Blair was Prime Minister.
His donation to Mr Johnson’s campaign was recorded in the latest register of MPs’ interests, which was published yesterday.
It showed Mr Johnson raised more than £100,000 in the final weeks of the leadership campaign.
Then-Mayor for London Boris Johnson (centre) with Lakshmi Mittal (right) at the unveiling of the winning design for the visitor attraction at the Olympic Park for the 2012, which Mittal spent millions building
Since November last year he has declared income of more than £1million including more than half a million in donations. Other income was raised from speeches, books and journalism.
Mr Mittal is the chairman and chief executive of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaking company.
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His donation to Mr Johnson’s campaign was recorded in the latest register of MPs’ interests, which was published yesterday
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