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Number 10 Chief of Staff Mark Fullbrook
LIZ TRUSS’S chief of staff has been questioned by the FBI as a witness in its investigation into an alleged plot to subvert the democracy of Puerto Rico.
Mark Fullbrook, who ran the PM’s leadership campaign, was interviewed over work he did for Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venuzuelan-Italian banker accused of bribing a Puerto Rican governor, according to reports at the weekend.
The London-based owner of Puerto Rico bank, Bancredito, is said to have offered to contribute to Wanda Vazquez Garced’s campaign for re-election as governor in return for her sacking the Caribbean island’s financial regulator, according to the US indictment.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
