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The oligarch invasion
SOLOMON HUGHES ponders the curious case of pro-Putin Russian oligarchs rubbing shoulders with Tory grandees and throwing a rouble or two into their party’s coffers

IT’S a Russian invasion. The Great Bear’s bully boys are breaking into new territories. 

I’m not talking about Ukraine. I’m talking about Vladimir Putin’s pals’ assault on the citadels of the Tory Party. 

They didn’t need tanks to break into the Conservatives’ summer party. They just needed money.

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