Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 5:26 pm on 22 January 2014.
Huw Irranca-Davies
Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
5:26,
22 January 2014
The few minutes remaining provide an opportunity to get more issues on the record. The Minister may be interested in responding to some other people who have written to me subsequently, when they learned of the debate. One of them wrote:
“When my wife and I met Mr Dewsnip”— who came up earlier in the debate—
“at one of his public presentations and had a private chat with him after the main event, he most certainly did advise us as to the suitability of the investment fund and assured us that Rothschild would be working on a daily basis with the fund managers to ensure that it was meeting expectations and performing as expected.”
I could cite other examples that imply an intimate, daily, minute-by-minute relationship, but I have yet to discover whether that also means that Rothschild or anyone who worked for Rothschild was financially benefiting from it. That would be interesting and it may figure in a subsequent meeting that I have with Rothschild.
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