Boris Johnson Defends Text Exchange With Dyson Over Tax Treatment
- BBC publishes 2020 text exchange between Dyson, Johnson
- Johnson says right to move ‘heaven and earth’ during pandemic
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he makes “absolutely no apology” for promises made to billionaire James Dyson over the tax treatment of staff developing ventilators at the height of the coronavirus crisis.
The BBC on Wednesday published a text exchange between the two men in March last year in which Dyson appeared to seek a tax waiver for workers he was bringing in from abroad to work on the government’s ventilator challenge. Johnson replied that he would “fix it” tomorrow, before later saying “Rishi says it is fixed,” a reference to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.