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Boris Johnson rakes in £20k from defender of fascist Chilean dictator Pinochet
The Tory leadership hopeful has accepted a donation from Pinochet sympathiser and fellow old Etonian Robin Birley, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
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BORIS JOHNSON’S leadership campaign is funded with donations including £20,000 from a defender of murderous fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet.
In July Johnson accepted £20,000 from Robin Birley, a London club owner with a long history of backing ultra-right-wing causes. Birley also gave £248,000 of donations to Ukip between 2011 and 2017.
Birley was involved with Pinochet in 1998. General Augusto Pinochet was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990.
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