Johnson’s office sent invoice to hedge fund manager, which was paid, weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader last year

  • Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

From a private jet somewhere over the Caribbean Sea in February last year, Boris Johnson called his old political adversary David Cameron, then the foreign secretary, to notify him of a visit.

Johnson had taken a day out from a family holiday in the Dominican Republic for an unlikely meeting with the leftwing president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, a man whom Johnson, when in office, had likened to a “dictator of an evil regime”.

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Source: Guardian - World News