Terence Mordaunt

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Terence Mordaunt is co-owner of the cargo handling business Bristol Port Company.

He and businessman David Ord bought the Port of Bristol from Bristol City Council in 1991.

Top Brexit 'leave' donor

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According to Business Insider, the pair have given over £640,000 to the Conservative Party since 2001. The Sunday Times listed Mordaunt as one of the top 21 pro-Brexit donors.[1]

Joins board of climate sceptic think tank

In April 2017 Mordaunt joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank run by Nigel Lawson. Other board members include British businessmen Edward Atkin CBE and Neil Record. [2]

Family links

Mordaunt is a family relative of UK defence secretary Penny Mordaunt.


External resources

  • Bristol Cable

Notes

  1. Adam Payne and Will Martin, The 21 biggest donors to the Brexit campaign, Business Insider, 9 May 2017.
  2. GWPF, TERENCE MORDAUNT JOINS GWPF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Press release, 4 April 2017