https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/09/25/labour-quadrature-rachel-kyte
As predictable as night following day, there WAS some backscratching involved in the £4m donation the Labour Party got from offshore tax-registered hedge fund Quadrature. The pay off? The co-chair of a board of its charitable foundation arm – Rachel Kyte – is now the UK government’s climate envoy.
Thanks to openDemocracy doing the journalism the corporate media consistently fail to, we now know that the Labour Party accepted a huge donation just after Rishi Sunak called July’s general election from Quadrature Capital.
We also know that the company behind it invest themselves in the worst of the worst. However, for a final sting in the tail, look no further than what this hedge fund does with some of the cash it makes.
Labour Party: £4m in slush funding…?
As openDemocracy revealed:
The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset managers.
While the £4m donation by Quadrature Capital is the sixth-largest in British political history, it is noteworthy not just for its size, but also its timing.
Of course, no one should really be surprised that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is accepting donations from hedge funds registered in tax havens. However, there were further revelations from openDemocracy. These include the fact that Quadrature had investments in fossil fuel, arms, and private healthcare companies.
However, the donation got its reward for Quadrature.
Now we know what Quadrature’s £4m was for
As journalist Michael Crick revealed on X, the Labour government’s new climate envoy is Rachel Kyte – who just happens to sit on the advisory board of Quadrature Charitable Foundation:
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dizzy: The on-the-take shower of sihts that currently govern us probably see nothing wrong with a rich offshore hedge fund buying a plump government role to promote it’s own interests. Years ago it was called corruption.