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Tories are hand in glove with Egypt’s dictator and his backers
Generous donations to Conservative Party coffers raise the question of quid pro quos

Egypt is run by a general who got power through a coup, so human rights are in a bad way.
That doesn’t stop our government being very friendly to General Sissi’s regime. The main reason is in the first sentence: the Conservative government likes dealing with countries run by generals, dictators and autocrats.
But it also probably helps that some Egyptian oligarchs, who seem supportive of Sissi, also pour quite a lot of money into the Tory Party.
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