Article 4REXD Ex-top civil servant: Hammond was right to query no-deal backers

Ex-top civil servant: Hammond was right to query no-deal backers

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Graeme Wearden
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'They are shorting the pound and the country' warns Nick Macpherson of Boris Johnson's hedge fund supporters

Former chancellor Philip Hammond's attack on Boris Johnson's hedge fund backers has been supported by a former top Treasury civil servant, as financial experts raise concerns over the PM's links to the City.

Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary to the Treasury, said Hammond was right to question the political connections of some of the hedge funds with a financial interest in no deal.

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