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According to his profile on the [[Young Britons' Foundation]] website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies [[Barbour Index Plc]] and [[Microgen Plc]].<ref>Patrick Barbour, [http://www.ybf.org.uk/2010/11/17/ybf7-speaker-patrick-barbour/ YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour], ''Young Britons' Foundation'', Accessed 13-April-2011</ref> He is also a founding director of [[Barbour Logic]].<ref>Barbour Logic, [http://www.barbourlogic.co.uk/pages/about-us/directors.htm Founding Directors], ''Barbour Logic'', Accessed 13-April-2011</ref> He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.<ref>The Independent, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/barbour-index-founders-pounds-22m-1080256.html Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m], ''the Independent'', 13-March-1999</ref>
 
According to his profile on the [[Young Britons' Foundation]] website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies [[Barbour Index Plc]] and [[Microgen Plc]].<ref>Patrick Barbour, [http://www.ybf.org.uk/2010/11/17/ybf7-speaker-patrick-barbour/ YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour], ''Young Britons' Foundation'', Accessed 13-April-2011</ref> He is also a founding director of [[Barbour Logic]].<ref>Barbour Logic, [http://www.barbourlogic.co.uk/pages/about-us/directors.htm Founding Directors], ''Barbour Logic'', Accessed 13-April-2011</ref> He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.<ref>The Independent, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/barbour-index-founders-pounds-22m-1080256.html Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m], ''the Independent'', 13-March-1999</ref>
  
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In 2010 [[the Sunday Times]] reported that Barbour had made donations to [[UKIP]].<ref>Solvej Krause; Daniel Foggo; Claire Newell, There's more than one way to hide a donor, ''The Sunday Times'', 4-April-2010</ref>  
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In 2010 [[the Sunday Times]] reported that Barbour had made donations to [[UKIP]].<ref>Solvej Krause; Daniel Foggo; Claire Newell, There's more than one way to hide a donor, ''The Sunday Times'', 4-April-2010</ref> In 2007 Barbour commissioned a report which coincided with a [[Taxpayers' Alliance]] report both of which argued that people no longer trusted politicians. Barbour argued that 'We need serious structural reform of Government'.<ref>Gabriel Milland, Politicians can't make our lives better say voters, ''Daily Express'', 30-January-2007</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 02:17, 15 April 2011

Barbour Index promotional picture from 1967[1]

Patrick Barbour is a trustee of Civitas, and was one of the three founders of Reform. He is also the author of the position paper for the Taxpayers Alliance's 'Better Government Campaign'.[2] Barbour has also made donations to the Stockholm Network[3][4] and is a business supporter of Global Vision.[5] He is a trustee of the Politics and Economics Research Trust which is the research wing of the Taxpayers' Alliance.[6]


According to his profile on the Young Britons' Foundation website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies Barbour Index Plc and Microgen Plc.[7] He is also a founding director of Barbour Logic.[8] He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.[9]

In 2010 the Sunday Times reported that Barbour had made donations to UKIP.[10] In 2007 Barbour commissioned a report which coincided with a Taxpayers' Alliance report both of which argued that people no longer trusted politicians. Barbour argued that 'We need serious structural reform of Government'.[11]

Affiliations

Civitas | Stockholm Network | Global Vision | Reform | Politics and Economics Research Trust | Taxpayers' Alliance | Young Britons' Foundation | UKIP | Bruges Group

Notes

  1. ↑ Lucy Granville, Mini’s and mini skirts: Barbour Index was a job for an independent woman in the 1960′s], LucyGranville.com, 8-September-2010, Accessed 13-April-2011
  2. ↑ Patrick Barbour, Patrick Barbour: Political management has failed the victims of C-Diff, Conservative Home, 18-October-2007
  3. ↑ Stockholm Network, Annual Report 2006-07, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010
  4. ↑ Stockholm Network, Annual Report 2007-08, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010
  5. ↑ Global Vision Support from Business, accessed 18 November 2010
  6. ↑ Politics & Economics Research Trust, Charity Commission Report, Charity Commission, Accessed 13-April-2011
  7. ↑ Patrick Barbour, YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour, Young Britons' Foundation, Accessed 13-April-2011
  8. ↑ Barbour Logic, Founding Directors, Barbour Logic, Accessed 13-April-2011
  9. ↑ The Independent, Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m, the Independent, 13-March-1999
  10. ↑ Solvej Krause; Daniel Foggo; Claire Newell, There's more than one way to hide a donor, The Sunday Times, 4-April-2010
  11. ↑ Gabriel Milland, Politicians can't make our lives better say voters, Daily Express, 30-January-2007
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